Race-ing Masculinity
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A01=John Christopher Cunningham
African American Literary Studies
Andrew's Father
Andrew’s Father
Asian American
Asian American Identity
Asian American Men
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Black Male Writers
Brown Buffalo
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Chicano Identity
Chicano Literature
Chicano Writing
Chinese American
Chinese American Woman
Cockroach People
Dead Beats
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ethnic minority narratives
feminist literary criticism
Framework Mouffe
Frank Chin
gender race sexuality in American fiction
homosocial dynamics
IDD
intersectional identity studies
Ivory Coast
Johnson's Work
Johnson’s Work
Male Homosexuality
masculinities in literature
Nisei Men
Pits Men
queer theory analysis
White America
White Characters
White Noise
Product details
- ISBN 9780415934763
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts coexist with or are engendered by articulations of anti-racism. Conversely, certain articulations of gender concerns produce reactionary ideas about race. The author examines Asian American identity in the works of Frank Chin, John Okada, and Shawn Hsu Wong, contending that these writers exhibit a strong masculinist/sexist bias, limiting their value for Asian American women and homosexuals. The author then looks at the work of African American writer Charles Johnson. He examines the conflict between feminism and male supremacy in Johnson's novels, tracing the relationship between this vision of gender and the conservatism of Johnson's approach to race issues. The author also considers the discourse of perverse sexuality with particular attention to the possibility of a countertradition of the joto, or queer in the canon of Chicano novels from Jose Antonio Villareal to Arturo Islas. Through an examination of the readings of Richard Rodriguez and Oscar Zeta Acosta, Cunningham demonstrates the interplay of homosocial sexual politics with Rodriguez and Acosta's respective conservative and revolutionary approaches to race. Finally, the study considers how claims about the universality of postmodern experience implicit in Don DeLillo's novel, White Noise, actually bear the particularizing marks of whiteness and masculinity. Includes index and bibliography
