Description: Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in the novels of James Baldwin. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex 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. This thematically daring and theoretically provocative work 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 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.
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EAN: 9781496217097
UPC: 9781496217097
ISBN: 9781496217097
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Book Title: Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Publication Name: Salvific Manhood : James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: American / African American, Men's Studies, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Ernest L. Gibson III, Ernest L. Gibson
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
