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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwins six novels.Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwins men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.In Salvific Manhood , Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwins novels.Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach thatviewsredemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions, Salvific Manhood theorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love.Positioned at the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Gibson deconstructs Baldwins wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood.Ultimately, Salvific
- Author
- Gibson, Ernest L., III
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496229052
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
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