Full Description
As more and more work is being done in the name of the ever-growing field of study of literary representations of masculinities, it seems timely to not only review its development and main contributions to the larger field of masculinity studies, but also to look at its latest advances and new directions. These are precisely the two main aims of Masculinities and Literary Studies, which seeks to explore the conjunction between these two fields while exploring some of the latest developments and new directions resulting from such intersections.
If much of the existing masculinity scholarship has traditionally been grounded in a specific discipline, this volume also seeks to provide an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of the latest interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship - namely, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, ecology, etc. - to the literary analysis, thus crossing the traditional boundary between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in new and profound ways.
Presenting the latest advances in masculinity scholarship, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to gender and masculinity scholars from a wide variety of fields, including sociology and social work, psychology, philosophy, political science, and cultural and literary studies.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities
1. Interrogating Racialized Masculinities
2. What is Black Manhood? De-coupling Black Manhood from Black Masculinities and the Lives of Black Men
3. Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: The Cases of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
4. Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American Theater
Part 2. Transnational Masculinities
5. Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities
6. Heroes, Losers or Geeks all the same? Transnational Masculinity Politics in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
7. Gendering Terrorism in Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now (2005) and in Nabil Ayouch's Horses of God (2012)
8. New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women
Part 3. The Ages of Man
9. Aging Masculinities as Strategies of Resistance
10. Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Toni Morrison's Black Boys and Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2015)
11. Fighting the Monsters Inside to the End: Masculinity, Class and the Ageing Gay Man in Christopher Bram's Father of Frankenstein (1995)
Part 4. Masculinities and Affect
12. Theorizing Affective Masculinities
13. Men of War: Affect, Embodiment and Western Heroic Masculinity in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008)
Part 5. Eco-Masculinities
14. The 'Wild, Wild World' -Masculinity and the Environment in the U.S. Literary Imagination from Cooper's The Pioneers (1825) to T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla
15. Environmental Humanities and the Construction of Caring Masculinities in David Vann and Annie Proulx
Part 6. Masculinites and/in Capitalism
16. Masculinities and Financial Capitalism
17. Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions
18. The Shifting Value of Material Goods in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (2013)
Part 7. Epilogue: New Directions in Masculinity Studies
