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247 Index Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 133, 174, 178 African American literature, 228–29n1; and black literary masculinity, 9; development of strong women characters, 9; differing perspectives of black female and black male writers, 5; influence of the gothic on, 8–9, 150–51, 222–23n1; and the politics of black literary canonicity , 150; as “protest/naturalist,” 3; “raceless” literary category of, 161–62, 163, 164; reluctance to discuss homosexuality in, 73; sexually veiled texts, 219n4; slave narratives, 73, 94, 132–33; tendency in to portray gay men as effeminate , 84; treatment of incest by black writers, 175; treatment of suicide by black writers, 69–70, 219n5 African Americans, 97, 181; and black folk culture, 11; collective memory of, 98; effects of racism on, 123–24; and the external markers of blackness, 33–34; homophobia in the black community and black culture, 87, 90; and the manifestation of anger in African American males, 38; marriage and black women’s self-actualization, 59; sexism in the vernacular culture of, 10–11. See also African American literature; black female subjectivity; black male subjectivity; black masculinity and identity “amalgamation hysteria,” 131, 133, 134, 150, 227n8 Anglophilia, 31, 90, 143, 144, 145, 150 “Ann Petry” (AP), account of AP’s male relatives in, 13–14, 16–17, 232n4 Another Country (Baldwin), 31, 70 Antwone Fisher (2002), 186 Arendt, Hannah, 109 At Home Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry (E. Petry), 7 Attaway, William, 4, 161 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (J. W. Johnson), 8, 31, 219n4; as a precursive text, 68–69 Baker, Houston, 142, 145, 211 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 184, 199 Baldwin, James, 2, 9, 31, 151, 161, 163, 175, 202; suicide in his work, 70 Bambara, Toni Cade, 70 Barry, Michael, 216n9 Becker, Susanne, 97, 106 Beloved (Morrison), 98, 111, 134, 182; as the most gothic of black literary texts, 124; “re-memorying” of Sethe Suggs in, 98–99 Bernard, Emily, 163 Bhabha, Homi, on the tropic function of British butlers, 217n12 The Birth of a Nation (1915), 31, 55 Black Boy (Wright), 178, 195 “Black Boys and Native Sons” (Howe), 213n1 “The Black Cat” (Poe), 139 black female subjectivity, 9, 58 black male subjectivity, 11, 12, 17, 26, 27, 33, 43, 56, 66, 80, 89, 145, 184, 195 black masculinity and identity, 9–10, 12, 16, 24, 26, 27, 57, 202, 204; and black men on the “down low” (DL), 27–28, 214–15n2; as emblematic of an intersection of deficiency and power, 81; and gangsta rap, 10–11, 12; gothicized black masculinity, 191; “lower frequencies” of 248 index black masculinity and identity (continued) black masculinity, 46–47; and masking of homosexuality, 90–91; misrepresentation of, 28–29; multiple masculinities, 15; and the plurality of masculinities that inform black male subjectivity, 12; scholarly studies of, 27–28 Black No More (Schuyler), 211, 215n3 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 28 Black Writers of America (Barksdale and Kinnamon ), 1 blackness, 133, 146, 147; as the apogee of Otherness, 143; equation of blackness with unsanctioned sexuality, 153; external markers of, 33–34; as a metaphor for sin/corruption, 165–66; presence of in the American psychic landscape, 93; as the ultimate white nightmare, 127 The Bluest Eye (Morrison), 41, 205, 233n2 Bodziock, Joseph, 165–66 Bone, Robert, 158–59 “The Bones of Louella Brown” (AP), 23, 96, 124–38, 139, 209, 225n1; Africanizing of the gothic comic form in, 135–36; the anxiety of racial homogeneity in, 133; as a comedy of errors, 122, 225–26n3; conceit of haunting used in, 125–26; deconstruction of racial difference in, 130–31; gothic components of, 124–25; intertextual connections in to “Mars Jeems’s Nightmare,” 127; Louella as “antimammy ” in, 137; metaphorical function of illness in, 134–35; Old Peabody in, 125–26, 128–29, 133; outline of the pivotal moments of, 125–26; racial rebirth of Old Peabody in, 138; racial panic of Young Whiffle in, 133–34; and the racializing of southern burial practices in, 129–30; Stuart Reynolds in, 125–26, 131, 132; thematic and rhetorical methodology of, 128; visitations of Louella’s ghost to Old Peabody in, 126, 128; Young Whiffle in, 125, 133, 137; Young Whiffle as “niggerized” in, 135 Bonner, Marita, 165 Bontemps, Arna, 62, 69 boxing, 66 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 203 Brown, Charles Brockton, 19, 108 Brown, William Wells, 69 Buell, Lawrence, 170 “Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women’s Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry’s The Street” (Shockley ), 97 Burns, Ben, 223–24n3 “Calibanic...

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