Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin
by
Josef Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Defined by violence, racism, sexism, and homophobia that originated on the American frontier and transformed into a definition of “ideal” masculinity, the protagonists in these postwar...