Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity

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In Masculinist Impulses, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity-free labor, self-reliance, and responsibility to family and community-as a result of slavery, postbellum disfranchisement, and the ensuing necessity to migrate from the agrarian South to the industrialized North. Through examinations of novels that deal with black male selfhood, Grant demonstrates the ways in which efforts to alleviate the most destructive aspects of racism ultimately reproduced them in the context of the industrialized city.

"Masculinist Impulses is an eloquent and incisive appraisal of recent as well as classic black texts that acutely augments contemporary discourses on literary black feminism. Grant's vision of literary black masculinity, as seen from Toomer and Hurston to Wideman, Morrison, and Naylor, is thoughtful, expansive, and astute, and certain to set a new course for conversation about a heretofore neglected critical area."-Valerie Smith

"Grant displays a sympathetic awareness of the extent to which African American men have been constrained by the often overwhelming forces of racist ideologies and practices. But, on the other hand, he quite ruthlessly dissects the consequences of this constraint, upon men and women alike, and gives an extraordinarily deft reading of several novels in which these consequences play themselves out."-Barbara Foley

"Nathan Grant's book is a tour de force on the subject of African American masculinities and should be read by all who have pondered or puzzled over the subject for the past three hundred years."-Geta LeSeur

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