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Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.)
DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes
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Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.) DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, + la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes
Customer Reviews:
Great read.......2007-09-27
Great read. I left the comic book scene right after this happened in the comics and was able to catch up easily with this graphic novel!
A good Build up to Volume 4..........2007-07-16
First of all, I found volume 3 far better then volume 2.
This Volume is worth a read and those missing Nightwing and Robin will be glad to see their return. Also, there is a great story involving poison Ivy and Clayface and even Superman makes an appearance. Very enjoyable.
If you found Volume 2 to lack some of the qualities of Volume 1, as I did, Volume 3 renews faith in where this epic story is going.
I gave it 3 stars simply because at the same time...It didn't blow my mind. Sure there were some great twists to the story,
The new Batgirl and so forth but generally this is still a build up to the
next Volume.
Also, another reason why I took a Star away from this is because this volume does not include Nightwing #35-39 which deal with Nightwing going to BlackGate, It's simply mentioned in this volume but not shown at all.
Hope this helped!
A Fair Ending..........2007-05-19
So, the first couple volumes of "No Man's Land" were excellent, possibly the best part of a series I have ever read...then came volume three. Starting with volume three, each story was hit and miss. Some were good, others were mediocre, and some...far below the 'good' line. This one is pretty much more of the hit and miss. However, it has a great ending that I'm pretty sure would please anyone who likes Batman at all. Not as great as the first couple volumes, but definatly not a waste of your time or money, "Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 5" gets a 3 out of 5.
Great Read!!.......2006-11-10
The story line is captivating and the fact that all of the characters you know and love are brought togther in such new and unique juxtapositions makes this worth recognition.
Someone hired Bane to ripen Gotham for the taking-.......2006-04-20
Bane makes an appearance in the No Man's Land and Batman must discover his purpose there. Does Bane want to once again be the "king" of Gotham? Or is he merely taking advantage of a new opportunity?
Someone is making a move and materials are being sent in. There is a light at the end of the No Man's Land tunnel. In addition, Joker and Two-face are still running wild.
No Man's Land is a take-no-prisoners look at Gotham if it reverted to the days of feudalism. It is an interesting "social experiment" on the part of the writers, and an intriguing plotline.
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Shake it baby...........2007-07-09
This volume has just about anything you could possibly ask for and almost every Bat character in the Bat universe. Nobody escapes the disaster, the book ends on a high note...at least higher than one might expect, but as soon as you pick up No Man's Land you see that things only get worse.... Moving story and well worth the read, it does stand on its own but you must buy all of the NML volumes if you want some sense of closure.
prelude to No Man's Land.......2007-05-21
I was collecting comics at the time this story arc came through, and enjoyed it throughly. It shows you just how hard the caped crusader had to work to try his hardest to save his city. I reccomend the whole No Man's Land collection for anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Well put together.......2006-07-07
Batman can handle criminals. But how can he fight a Earthquake? How can he fight the natural destruction of a city?
A lot of crossovers nowadays are pathetically poorly coordinated. But Batman: Cataclysm is very well coordinated and flows pretty well. If you don't read the writing credits you wouldn't be able to tell how many different writers were involved. The main story following Batman, Oracle, Nightwing and Robin are intersepersed with vignettes starring Two-Face, Ra's al Ghul and others. One of the few week points is a vignette starring Robin is put in out of order. In it Robin, while rescuing trapped victims, says in the narrative that he hasn't found his family, but about five pages before he was reunited with his family. But most of the story flows well, and it's believable. Batman and Alfred are trapped in the Batcave well below ground. How do they get out? The Batmobile exit is blocked, the stairs up to the mansion is blocked, the access to Robin's house is blocked. So how do they get out? It's handled very clearly and as realistically as any comic book can get.
The real strong point of this story though is the artwork. Almost every comics artist can draw a decent figure but there are a sad number of artists who don't or can't draw backgrounds. But the Batman creative crew is occupied by artists who can draw buildings and scenery. As Gotham city is an essential part of the Batman mythos this probably isn't a coincidence. As such the scenes of the destroyed city are amazing and horrific. The falling skyscrapers, Wayne Manor split down the middle, rubble two stories high are all handled well, and you really feel how intense it is for these people to lose their city, their home.
I was really impressed with this work. The story continues in the No Man's Land story arc, and after reading this I definately want to go read those.
bring down Gotham.......2004-03-16
What we have here is a major earthquake that pretty much destroys Gotham. You get to see what Batman and company would do in the face of a major natural disaster. On a scale that we've never seen (after all, they do close it off). It's a great story with really good art. It helps keep Batman from becoming stale.
Interesting comic book, with a few flaws........2002-07-11
The greatest entity about Batman: Cataclysm is that it had excellent artistry; most of the pictures/scenes made sense, and are clear. For the most part, this book contains well-thought writing, which makes it better to understand . Although, there are a couple cons in this book that I must share with you. There are about four grammar errors, and some of them may keep you mind-boggled for the rest of day/night thinking about what they were trying to express. Once you get to meet Ra Al' Ghul, he can make the story confusing because of his wording. Overall, this book will get very exciting with its art, and knowing if you're a Batman fan, you'll love this book.
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For fans of Batman:The Animated Series.......2007-09-29
This is like a Batman:The Animated Series cartoon on paper. The art and storytelling are both right out of the show. I enjoy when Batman acts like a detective instead of just a ninja. Good stuff.
Greg Rucka Saves the Day.......2005-05-10
I agree with some of the reviewers that say the artwork is not great. I think the team of artists were going for a simple/classic Tim Sale kind of feel, but don't quite pull it off. The limited color palette is unusual (entire chapters use only a few colors), but this doesn't bother me. It creates an unreal feeling, so you can accept people transforming into animals... well, almost.
What saves the book is the writing of Greg Rucka. After his HUGE hit with the recent Batman comic, "The OMAC Project," I wanted to check out his earlier stuff. So I ordered this and I wasn't disappointed. Rucka understands that Batman books work well when Bruce Wayne is allowed to be a detective, not just a grunting badass. Even though Ra's al Ghul is probably my least favorite Batman villain, I enjoyed his part of the story. The Two-Face chapter is solid too. I like how Rucka includes characters from "Gotham Central," like Detective Montoya (the Two-Face chapter revolves around her).
Check out Rucka's work on the "Batman & Huntress" trade paperback (an excellent read) and the acclaimed "Queen and Country" series.
Happy reading!
Missing The BackUps, But 8 Of The Best Batman Comics Ever.......2004-12-18
Reprints Detective Comics #s 743-750, minus, apparantly, the 8-page backups that began appearing in # 746. The exclusion of said material, excellent though it is, is not enough to justify bumping this down from five stars to four; besides, all DC has to do is start issuing Trade Paperbacks reprinting the Detective backups like they've done for the Black-&-White backups from Gotham Knights (another outstanding title) and problem solved, you don't have to worry about missing any material when you purchase Trades like this or "Officer Down" or "Fugitive". What really mystifies me though, is if this is billed as 'New Gotham 1', why they didn't start the volume off by reprinting Detective # 742, THE perfect post-No Man's Land starting point, an issue largely focusing on Jim Gordon and the reprecussions of the final issues of NML. I definately recommend that issue in addition to this volume, as it sets the stage well for the whole post-NML Batman material in many of the titles, not just Detective.
Onto the material that is reprinted itself - issues 743-746 bring the detective skills of the Bat into center stage as he investigates the prescence and intentions of Whisper A'Daire and Kyle Abbot in Gotham, two new (to the reader) agents of the Demon's Head, Ra's Al Ghul. 743-746 also give considerable play to many of Gotham's 'non-costumed' organized crime elements, and does so with great characterization and realism. # 747 is a stand-alone issue in which Batman is pretty much a cameo player, in an issue starring GCPD officer Reneé Montoya and Two-Face; possibly one of the 5 best single-issue Batman stories ever published; actually I'd go even further and say it's possibly one of the 5 best self-contained comics, period. Detective Nos. 748 & 749, 'Urban Renewal' Parts 1 & 2, see the tense friction between the Dee-Zees (residents who left Gotham after the No Man's Land declaration and returned after it was lifted) and OGs (Original Gothamites, who stayed in the city during the whole crisis) escalating into violence; also brings in details on how the actual rebuilding of the city is proceeding. And Detective Comics # 750 is a follow-up to the arc in 743-746, brilliant but containing one small implausibility, the only one in the collection. To focus too much on that would be nitpicking on the molecular level given the overall awesomeness of the issue and the collection.
The artwork is tremendous, one of the few examples of veering into the highly stylized realm of art (rather than going for a fully photorealistic style) that I find totally rewarding and expressive on every level. And it's not that it's blatantly UN-photorealistic, it's just that this is a really unique, really innovative pencil style. If the drawing style is innovative, the coloring style is downright revolutionary, casting each individual issue in pre-dominantly in a single primary color and its multitude of shades, plus black, white and grey. A bold move that succeeded magnificently and worked with the pencils and inks for one of the most original looks on any comic title in years and years.
Tremendous, riveting, outstanding, and unpredictable, I'll stop now before I use too much bandwidth with thousands of praiseful adjectives.
awesome.......2002-04-24
Great read. Not so great art work but you can't blame that on rucka can you. Rucka did a great job with the villans i think. i purchased this along with batman broken bat. Broken Bat was a little better cause of the art work. BUY THIS BOOK!
Memorable only for the Two-Face chapter.......2002-03-05
Novelist Greg Rucka came aboard the Batman books during the groundbreaking "No Man's Land" epic. I loved that story arc, but since then, I've found Rucka's work, both on Batman and other comics (Whiteout, Batman/Huntress, etc.) to be either hit or miss. He is capable of great work, as the Two-Face story in this book shows, but when he's off his game.....oh boy.
The biggest problem here is Editorial; When DC rebooted Detective Comics, post NML, they made a few awful decisions- Artist Shawn Martinbrough's work is boring and nondescript, and it's made even worse by the "Limited" Colors used. The book looks like someone spilled a mug of Hot Chocolate on it. Just awful. Why bother to color it at all? It would be much more palatable in black and white.
An Editor should also have stepped in to stop Rucka from using a ridiculous designer drug as his plot device; The drug doesn't just addict, it turns it's users into animals. Literally. Snakes, Wolves, etc. After years spent trying to keep The Batman books (Semi)believable, the sight of addicts turning into snakes had me howling with laughter. Is this the best the great Ra's Al Ghul could do? Pathetic! Ra's Al Ghul is not my favorite Batman villain, but I think that's why he never used to turn up much: It took a really talented writer to do something with him. Rucka was not that writer. After all of that buildup, the story doesn't end, so much as stop. It's almost like Rucka ran out of writing paper....
With the great array of Batman books out there, you can't really be in bad enough shape that you'll want to waste your cash on this....
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After barely surviving a furious gun duel against his arch-rival, No Man struggles to save the life of outlaw Cherokee Bill. Meanwhile, Henry Cornelius Bakerton conjures forth ever more horrific demons to pursue them. As No Man fights back, more of his tragic past is revealed.
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No Man's Land (Modern Voices)
Graham Greene
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No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, “civilian” Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night, he crosses into the Russian zone, claiming to be drawn to a site of Catholic pilgrimage. His cover is not quite convincing enough, however, and he finds himself arrested and interrogated. Refusing to confess the real reason behind his visit, he gains an unexpected ally, and the two of them embark upon a hazardous plan to complete his mission and return to the West. The result is a remarkable, psychologically charged exploration of fear and crossed frontiers. Author and playwright Graham Greene is best known for his works Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, and The Heart of the Matter.
Customer Reviews:
Two stunning novellas.......2006-11-17
The two short novels in this book are Graham Greene's two Cold-War thrillers.
In No Man's Land the main themes are security measures taken by the Russians against information on the uranium workings on the Czech-Austrian border and a kind of Teresa Neumann character who attracts religious pilgrims from outside the area. Actually Greene later changed that aspect of the story in favour of a visitation from the Virgin Mary herself, who appears, holding a rose, to two children, in an area that had recently come under the control of the Russian occupying forces in the Harz mountains. Greene wanted to exploit the recent uranium discoveries at Eisleben in the Soviet zone.
In both stories the personal and political are entwined. Then Stranger'sHand features the plight of an eight-year boy, Roger Court, who is posted like a parcel by his aunt to a strange city, Venice, to meet a long-absent father who fails to turn up. Greene writes memorably about an alienated childhood and the rituals with which the boy seeks to distract himself, the improvised game of cricket, and the moments when his courage and self-control suddenly give way to helpless tears, are beautifully judged. Here again the background is Cold War espionage and intrigue so that the confrontation across the frontiers of disputed territory serves as a metaphor for moral and emotional disconnection.
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John Parker had it all. A decorated sharpshooter in the Civil War, he had a promising career ahead of him, a beautiful wife, and a newborn son. But after becoming embroiled in a dark and demonic conspiracy engineered by the Bakerton Detective Agency, he lost everything. Fleeing to the West, a broken man, Parker reinvents himself as "No Man," a heartless gun-for-hire whose only solace comes from hunting and killing the demons who he helped set loose. With Buntline Special in hand, a deadly revolver with a sixteen inch barrel, he blasts his way through a different kind of Old West, where strange and evil beings lurk. This publisher is a new client to Diamond Book Distributors!
Customer Reviews:
Very violent with minimal story.......2007-08-12
First of all, let me make it clear that I have absolutely nothing against OEL manga. Some of my favorite manga happen to be OELs. I am not a purist. On the other hand, I understand that not all OELs are perfect and brilliant. They're a mixed bunch, just like Japanese manga. Alright, now that I've made that clear, let me move on to the review.
If you are to believe the blurb on the back cover, No Man's Land is about John Parker, who was a decorated sharpshooter in the Civil War, had a promising career ahead of him, a wife, and a newborn son. The blurb continues that John lost everything after getting embroiled in a conspiracy engineered by the Bakerton Detective Agency. Now John reinvents himself as "No Man", a gun-for-hire who hunts and kills demons.
If you read the blurb, as I did, you would probably think that this sounds like a fascinating series. Unfortunately, I can recap the entire first volume in one sentence: John Parker is a Civil War veteran who fights demons in the Old West. Actually, that's a bit too sophisticated. The real blurb should be something like this: A dude with a big gun shoots evil stuff and gore spatters everywhere. That's much closer to the atmosphere of the first volume of No Man's Land. The Bakerton Detective Agency is never introduced (although a character named Bakerton shows up at the end of the volume); the conspiracy subplot makes no appearance at all.
The art, like all Seven Seas' releases, is beautiful. Unfortunately, the panel layout is often confusing and the artist uses speed lines far too much. There were several action scenes where I couldn't tell what was happening and I had to re-read the page several times.
Another major problem with the volume is that I wanted to vomit just about every other page. The volume is rated Older Teen, but I doubt that it would be rated anything less than Mature with another publisher. One of the early scenes in the volume features a small child eating the innards of a naked woman. Yum. One of the most graphic scenes in the volume features a naked woman (why must they always be naked?) who has had her left leg ripped off, her intestines ripped out and thrown all over the room, and a large bite taken out of her breast. Feeling sick yet? If not, don't worry. The volume also features plenty of decapitation, limb-loss, and many, many gunshot wounds, all beautifully drawn, of course.
The story is, as I have already said, non-existent and the characters are cardboard cut-outs. The volume has one of the most stereotypical Mexicans I have ever seen. He seems incapable of uttering a sentence that doesn't include some random Spanish phrase. He's supposed to be comic relief, but the only relief that came from him was when he finally shut up. The main character is supposed to have a tragic past (as indicated by the heart-warming flashbacks featuring his wife and child), but none of that is actually present in his personality. He seems to be there simply to fill the role of protagonist, not to be an interesting and original character.
If you want to see a guy shoot stuff and some pretty art, you might consider buying No Man's Land. However, if the idea of seeing a disemboweled woman disturbs you, this is definitely not the book for you. If you're looking for an engrossing story or unusual characters, this is not the book for you either; in fact, I would recommend avoiding No Man's Land like the plague.
Drama queens in the West.......2006-09-22
I didn't know it was a soap opera story. I grew up with Western and Spaghetti Western movies. I have never seen them act very dramatic, to me Westerns are more of a "Man of action with his pistol." No Man's Land didn't seem to have that and the idea of devil worshipping and demons coming out to be like people, Pres. Lincoln geting killed by that actor who turns into a demon, John Wilkes Booth, seems sort of ridiculous.
Well..........2005-08-18
I'm somebody who likes to buy something for the material content, not necessarily the political backdrop of an item. I spend countless hours buzzing around stores looking for good Mangas and a few random books that strike -my- fancy. As a lover of old Westerns and an abundance of Sci-fi and fantasy it's not hard to find what I want. But a hell of a fight to find any sort of combination.
So when I stumbled acrossed this manga I fell in love.
Regardless of any technical flaws it might contain I easily related to the characters and storyline. I prefer the story over the art most of the time -- but this was just a splendid manga over all for me. It gave face to some beautiful Western style characters to be backdropped by even a decent 'poser' style manga. Though I say that tongue-in-cheek because ultimately art will be art; done in the country of origin or not.
While I understand purists and their gripe over traditional manga verses American-Made-Manga, I can simply say that it personally doesn't matter to me. Why not? Because ultimately pieces of graphic literature like this are appeasing no matter where they came from.
Simply put: it's art -- the way we read, the way we view things, and even the styles, in whole or in part, chosen to present them are just forms and modifications of art. And art is one of those quaint expressive things that does not have some set definition, even where we think it might.
Now, as for the setting of this manga, the Wild West is an era of our American world, not the world of the East. Thus this manga is only in a Manga style because it's paying homage to the art form. It's not attempting to deface it. It's not trying to copy it either; they state that it IS an American Manga. Nobody's trying to hide anything and ultimately it forges some originality on a level. While purists might see it as abuse, I just see it as new people trying old things with a new face and no harm done doing so since nobody's trying to sneak this under the radar as something it's not.
Understanding all this, I have found a personal passion for No Man's Land. To me it gives me what I want -- a Western Manga touched off with the skills of American Manga producers.
I couldn't be happier, really. I'm not personally that hard up in how I view something built with associable characters, a setting I tripped head-over-heels for and a storyline I can't wait to see develope. But purists of manga will have an issue with it as always.
I just really like the story and art... All-in-all, that's what counts.
A dramatic thriller with lovely art. .......2005-07-01
Perhaps it has to do with my love for action thrillers that I was enthralled with this from the moment I read chapter one. I think the artistic style is original and fresh and most definitely suits this style of comic.
Annette's negative review was repetitive and obviously bias toward Western manga (comics). I found the tones and shades crisp and not distracting from the comic and its storyline at all. It also uses creative frames which do not interrupt the flow of reading. Western manga's are a up-and-coming breed and I'm proud to say that this one is quite a classic.
A well written, gun-slinging western comic with gorgeous art. Count on me to be looking forward to new installments!
An Excellent Story with wonderful artwork.......2005-05-01
This is what I have so far, it is a work in progress I will mention more about the artwork shortly, but is this sound okay so far?
It is my belief that what some of the other reviewers are forgetting about No Man's Land is the story itself. It is the very story told in No Man's Land that drew me in from the first few pages and now has me eagerly awaiting the next volume's release. It is a story which brings to mind the classic westerns, holding all the hallmarks of those classic western stories that people have watched over again in movies and read over again in novels. However, it does hold a slight twist which for me was a further hook to this story, and what makes it unique within the hallmarks of classic western stories it holds.
Many of the classic western elements have been mentioned in the editorial review, a Civil War veteran, a man who has had everything taken from him, a man that as a result has turned into a type of bounty hunter and mercenary, whose tortured by memories of what he lost and whose only true peace comes from hunting some of those that brought such loss to his life. The twist comes through what he is hunting, various demons and monsters. The same ones he was duped into freeing and setting lose upon an un-expecting world.
As to the artwork itself, it fits perfectly with a style and flair of the story matching both the story's pacing and the action of the story. It is also reminiscent of the western style movies and covers of old western novels. Never once did I find the artwork to be overwhelming but in fact found it to help further assist in the telling of the story. It brought further to life the words which were being spoken and told, and for me helped to make No Man Land's that much more enjoyable.
No Man's Land is one, which I very highly recommend, by encouraging you not to compare it or judge it without first trying it for yourself. Upon trying No Man's Land I think you will find a brand new story that is by far one of the most enjoyable stories with an "Old West" setting to be released in any format recently.
Lastly, I do not desire to enter into a debate over what is and is not manga in review, nor is this the place to have such a debate, so I also encourage any future reviews not to try and bring about questions of what is and is not manga at present.
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Native Sons in No Man's Land: Rewriting Afro-American Manhood in the Novels of Baldwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines (Studies in African American History and Culture)
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With the study of selected novels by Baldwin, Walker, Wideman, and Gaines, Native Sons in No Man's Land examines the discursive politics involved in the rewriting of such powerless, inarticulate versions of black manhood as that codified by Richard Wright in Native Sons' Bigger Thomas. The novels treated in this study present their writers sharing a desire to transcend the language barriers that control mainstream definitions of (Black) manhood. A close critical reading of these texts reveals a great deal about the American and, specifically, Afro-American aspiration to manly identity, about the relationship between one's sense of "manhood" and one's control of discourse, and about the power of language to shape identity.
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