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<p>My paper focuses on studying the representations of black masculinity in the Harlem Renaissance’s discourse, and investigates how these representations challenged the limited, reductive and one-dimensional stereotypes which were adopted and further disseminated by the popular culture of the time. To do so, I will analyze a number of black male characters depicted in the silent film, Within Our Gates (1920), of the African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.</p>
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My paper focuses on studying the representations of black masculinity in the Harlem Renaissance’s discourse, and investigates how these representations challenged the limited, reductive and one-dimensional stereotypes which were adopted and further disseminated by the popular culture of the time. To do so, I will analyze a number of black male characters depicted in the silent film, Within Our Gates (1920), of the African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.

Representations of Black Masculinity in Oscar Micheaux’s Silent Film <italic>Within Our Gates</italic>

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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Representations of Black Masculinity in Oscar Micheaux’s Silent Film 

My paper focuses on studying the representations of black masculinity in the Harlem Renaissance’s discourse, and investigates how these representations...

Representations of Black Masculinity in Oscar Micheaux’s Silent Film Within Our Gates

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 31 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0005

Keywords
black masculinity, Oscar Micheaux, race films, the Harlem Renaissance

© 2020 Fatma Chenini, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Representations of Black Masculinity in Oscar Micheaux’s Silent Film Within Our Gates

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 31 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0005

Keywordsblack masculinity, Oscar Micheaux, race films, the Harlem Renaissance

© 2020 Fatma Chenini, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
black masculinity, Oscar Micheaux, race films, the Harlem Renaissance