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Can't I Love What I Criticize?: The Masculine and Morrison
Susan Neal Mayberry
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Hardcover. Explores Toni Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the "axes" on which these relationships turn. This book considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a racist culture of competition, and fixed ideals about physical beauty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison's eight novels, this book explores Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the ""axes"" on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters. ""Can't I Love What I Criticize?"" offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrison's call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, ""outside of that little community value thing.""The book also considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a larger, ... Read more
Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison's eight novels, this book explores Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the ""axes"" on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters. ""Can't I Love What I Criticize?"" offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrison's call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, ""outside of that little community value thing.""The book also considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a larger, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329451
SKU
V9780820329451
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About Susan Neal Mayberry
Susan Neal Mayberry is a professor of English at Alfred University.
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