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The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero - Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present (Paperback)
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The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero - Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present (Paperback)
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The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black
Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary
theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory
of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to
answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does
the experience of being black and male in the modern West affect
the telling of a narrative, the shape or structure of a novel, the
development of characters and plot lines, and the nature of
criticism itself? James B. Haile argues that, since black male
identity is largely fluid and open to interpretation,
reinterpretation, and misinterpretation, the literature of black
men has developed flexibility and improvisation, termed the "jazz
of life." Our reading of this literature requires the same kind of
flexibility and improvisation to understand what is being said and
why, as well as what is not being said and why. Finally, the book
attempts to offer this new reading experience by placing texts by
well-known authors, such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and
Colson Whitehead, in conversation with texts by those who are less
well known and those who have, for the most part, been forgotten,
in particular, Cecil Brown. Doing so challenges the reader to visit
and revisit these novels with a new perspective about the social,
political, historical, and psychic realities of black men.
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