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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered 1
- 1. My Father’s Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority 13
- 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance 40
- 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting 67
- 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity 94
- Conclusion. Masculine Legacies 114
- Notes 121
- Index 139
- Acknowledgments 147
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered 1
- 1. My Father’s Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority 13
- 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance 40
- 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting 67
- 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity 94
- Conclusion. Masculine Legacies 114
- Notes 121
- Index 139
- Acknowledgments 147