Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal
1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain
2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni’s Room
3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country
4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk
Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage
Notes
Bibliography
Index