Anxious Men : Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Baldwin, Clive

Edinburgh University Press（2020/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474423878
• DDC分類 813.5409

Full Description

Focusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with contemporary notions of masculinity. It draws on gender theory and analysis of writers from diverse backgrounds of race, class and sexuality to provide rich comparative insights into the constitution of American masculinity in fiction. The extensive range of novels considered includes fresh analyses of key authors such as James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Ann Petry, J. D. Salinger and Gore Vidal.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: anxiety, conformity and masculinity

1. 'Organisation Man', domestic ideology and manhood

2. 'Everything in him had come undone': violent aggression, courage, and masculine identity

3. Representing sexualities and gender

4. Identity and assimilation in Jewish-American fiction

5. African-American identity and masculinity

Afterword
Works cited and consulted
Index