Negotiating Difference

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading across the Lines 1: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading 2: A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism 3: Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse 4: Representing Rape: On Spike, Iron Mike, and the "Desire Dynamic" 5: "Unruly and Let Loose": Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of Solomon 6: "The Crookeds with the Straights": On Fences, Race, and the Politics of Adaptation 7: "A Slave to the Rhythm": Essential(ist) Transmutations; or, The Curious Case of Michael Jackson Notes Index

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In this text, the author show how debilitating "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing cultural boundaries. In pursuing a black male/feminist criticism, the study acknowledges the complexities of sexual, gender and racial interpretations.