- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Reconstructing dangerous definitions of Black manhood in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2020
- Creator:
- Condua, Nana Kofi
- Date of Original:
- 2020-12
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Within ethnic groups of African origin, there is an unspoken way that Black men in the United States and on the continent of Africa are expected to behave. This thesis explores how men who are part of the African diaspora have traditionally defined and performed manhood. Through the exploration of the major male characters in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, this work will broadly explore how Achebe and Hurston display and critique these definitions of manhood and offer new ways of understanding manhood for men across the African diaspora. Many of the male characters in each of these novels ascribe to hyper-masculine definitions of manhood and do not show a balance of character traits that are traditionally associated with masculine or feminine behavior. Through each of their works, Achebe and Hurston show how hyper-masculine conceptualizations of manhood become an issue for men who are part of the diaspora and how that hyper-masculinity consequently leads to dangerous definitions of manhood.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2020_condua_nana_kofi
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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