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The suffocatingly narrow confines of Black masculinity and the blues prescription for escape in James Baldwin, Ernest Gaines, and August Wilson
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The suffocatingly narrow confines of Black masculinity and the blues prescription for escape in James Baldwin, Ernest Gaines, and August Wilson
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ETD_2724
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eng
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theses
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation
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Gaines, Ernest J., 1933---Criticism and interpretation
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Wilson, August--Criticism and interpretation
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Another country--Characters
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Gaines, Ernest J., 1933---Lesson before dying.--Characters
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Wilson, August--Fences--Characters
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English
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Masculinity in literature
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African American men--Psychology
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Blues (Music)
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This thesis examines the effects of a confining, misrepresentative black masculinity and the possibilities for escaping it, as manifested in James Baldwin's Another Country (1962). It explores Baldwin's proposed blues prescription for escape as a process of self-discovery, shared experience, and recognition, and applies this model to the black male protagonists in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying (1993) and August Wilson's Fences (1983). Through character analyses of Rufus Scott in Another Country, Grant Wiggins and Jefferson in A Lesson Before Dying, and Troy and Cory Maxson in Fences, I identify the causes of their figurative and (sometimes) literal imprisonment, the effects of that imprisonment, and the possibilities for breaking free. What is more, I suggest that Baldwin's proposed other country can be extended, not only to Gaines and Wilson, but to other twentieth century literature about black males as well. This study extends previous correlations between African American literature and black masculinity studies as found in the work of Keith Clark, Maurice Wallace, and Peter Caster by examining the process through which black males can renegotiate the constructions of their masculinity.
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M.A.
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Wood
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Tara K.
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1983-
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Rutgers University
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2010
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 31st, 2011.
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