Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy
Ernest L. Gibson III
University of Nebraska Press
At the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Ernest L. Gibson, III deconstructs Baldwin’s wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin’s novels, an assertion that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation.