JCO: Graduate Research Project

I am a graduate student who is currently doing research on how black (African-American) masculinity is constructed in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. For my research project I am focusing on the following books specifically: I'll Take You There, I Lock the Door upon Myself and Because It is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart. That said, I'd like to find out what people know about this subject matter, either broadly or specifically. I'd  especially like to know if anyone can direct me to any pertinent literary criticism or like-minded study.

Thank you.

Richard

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