The collection concerns itself with race, gender, masculinity, marginalization, the act of violence as a means of self expression, identity and the performance of identity, love, and loss. The collection also uses historical events-more specifically, events that are central to black culture in Northeast, Ohio- to situate the characters and witness their response to these historical events. I strive to illustrate blackness as both political and fragmented with the characters in my collection. My characters believe that what they are doing-exacting violence, abusing women, disrespecting each other- is somehow the normative; that somehow what it is that they have learned is how they should perform black identity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc28431 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Hoey, Danny M., Jr. |
| Contributors | Tait, John, 1969-, Friedman, Bonita, Muyumba, Walton |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Hoey, Danny M., Jr., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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