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Moreover, there are positive role models for Asian men. In traditional Chinese thinking, learning and negotiation were the preferred paths to true manhood. More modern roles can be found in characters like "My Grandfather" in Red Sorghum or Wittman Ah Sing in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and in the work of writers like David Mura, Gus Lee and David Wong Louie. They are not always the heroes we would like them to be, but they are appealing, active, sexual, powerful people...
...supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience -- an unflinching Asian view of the politics of testosterone, of the crimes all races of men are capable of committing...
...cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings. The novel is "only" about a New England shopping tour, on which Hedy's son Joe hitches a ride. But if war novels can teach us about manhood, why can't a shopping novel reconcile capitalism and humanism? And do so in a voice that merges Jane Austen with a Bloomingdale's catalog? I'll Take It is about informed, unconditional family love; this makes it rare among modern novels...
...first of a three-part DuBois Lecture Series on the "Genealogies of Race. Nation and Manhood," Carby argued that DuBois' narrative, which is teen through a gender specific perspective, is essential to Black genealogy...
...said DuBois may have interpreted Black development through a "triple consciousness." Black men were forced to face the trials of entering manhood as well as see themselves through white men's eyes...