“Called Into Existence”: Desire, Gender, and Voice in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of 1845

George P. Cunningham is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College (CUNY). He has recently completed a book, Langston Hughes and the Discourse of the Harlem Renaissance (Westport: Greenwood, forthcoming), and he is currently working on a study on Afro-American male subjectivity, “Between the World and Me: Black Men and Figures of the Father.”