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A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Tara T. Green
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Description for A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Hardcover. The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. This book examines the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation as seen in black men's autobiographies and in other constructions of black fatherhood in fiction. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.""A Fatherless Child"" examines the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation as seen in black men's autobiographies and in other constructions of black fatherhood in fiction. Through these works, Tara T. Green investigates what comes of abandonment by a father and loss of a role model by probing a son's understanding ... Read more
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.""A Fatherless Child"" examines the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation as seen in black men's autobiographies and in other constructions of black fatherhood in fiction. Through these works, Tara T. Green investigates what comes of abandonment by a father and loss of a role model by probing a son's understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826218216
SKU
V9780826218216
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Ref
99-15
About Tara T. Green
Tara T. Green is Assistant Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at Northern Arizona University and editor of From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature.
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