James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, And The Rhetorics Of Black Male Subjectivity by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea
This study offers a comparative rhetorical analysis of novels by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison to examine how Black male subjectivity is constructed within intersecting forces of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Through close readings of key characters and narrative strategies, it shows how vulnerability, care, and community complicate reductive stereotypes of hypermasculinity while exposing the structural and psychic violences shaping Black men’s lives. It argues that these narratives model alternative modes of agency and ethical relation, reimagining Black masculinity beyond dominant cultural scripts.
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