Masculinities in Black and White

Josep M. Armengol is Associate Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Introduction 1. Slavery in Black and White: White Masculinity as Enslaving in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2. Of Gray Vapors and Creeping Clouds: White (Male) Privilege as Blinding in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno'. 3. Revisiting Masculinity and/as Whiteness in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro 4. Dark Objects of Desire: The Blackness of (Homo)sexuality in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room 5. Race and Gender in the Mirror: A (White) Woman's Look at (Black) Racism in Martha Gellhorn's "White Into Black"