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In the Shadow of the Black Beast:

African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances (Google eBook)
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LSU Press, May 1, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 296 pages
Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or black beast, as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social ramifications. Indeed, Leiter asserts that the two groups consciously engaged one anotherÆs work as they struggled to define roles for black masculinity in a society that viewed the black beast as the raison dÆOtre for segregation. Leiter begins b.
  

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Contents

Literary Renaissance and the Interracial Sex Factor
1
SEXUAL VICTIMS AND BLACK BEASTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
17
ONEDROP MEN IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEAST
51
SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS AND THE BATTLE AT THE RACIAL BORDER
88
BLACK BEASTS AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATIONS OF MARGARET MITCHELL AND ALLEN TATE
134
THE END OF THE CHASTE ICON AND THE EMBRACE OF THE BEAST
164
BIGGER AND THE BLACK BEAST REVENGE NARRATIVE
204
Notes
211
Works Cited
247
Index
271
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