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Even 'privileged' young men who 'fitted into' the dominant stereotype were aware of the misery that such a proscriptive form of masculinity created for others. This study is not guided by a moral commitment to heterosexual hegemony or to a version of African American social and political advancement that requires adherence to established cultural norms or proscriptive modes of being, sexual or otherwise. Of course, "The Dead" would have appeared in an old "reactionary" anthology but DiLeo's point is that the proscriptive nature of anthologies robs students of the opportunity to engage with texts on their own terms. |
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