Salvific Manhood : James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

Gibson, Ernest L.

University of Nebraska Press（2019/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496217097
• DDC分類 813.54

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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences. In Salvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin's novels. Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach that views redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
 
Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions, Salvific Manhood theorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love. Positioned at the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Gibson deconstructs Baldwin's wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Ultimately, Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin's novels, introducing new theories for understanding the intricacies of African American manhood and American identity, all within a space where the presence of tragedy can give way to the possibility of salvation.​
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
In Search of the Fraternal: Towards a New Epistemology and Reading of James Baldwin
CHAPTER ONE Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain
CHAPTER TWO Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni's Room
CHAPTER THREE Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country
CHAPTER FOUR Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
CHAPTER FIVE Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk
CONCLUSION
'Somewhere in That Wreckage': James Baldwin, Just Above My Head, and the Project of Mythologizing
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