Description
This handbook provides an overview of representations of masculinities in Anglophone literatures worldwide. While Part One provides an introduction to the complexities of exploring masculinities across nations, the next parts revolve around a select number of masculinity-related topics that recur across contemporary Anglophone literatures, ranging from violence(s) to boyhood and fatherhood, to aging, or to alternative models of being a man. Crossing traditional boundaries across different literary genres, the collection analyzes fiction but also poetry, drama, short stories, and film adaptations of literary texts. It also challenges the distinction between high- and low-brow culture by incorporating chapters on hard-boiled fiction or domestic noir. The handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, cultural and literary studies, and postcolonial theory, among others.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Post Colonial Racialized and or Transnational Masculinities Theorizing Masculinities in Anglophone Literatures.- Chapter 3: Troubled Masculinities in Indian Country.- Chapter 4: Beyond the Rupture Event Spatial Relations and Masculinities in Contemporary Canadian Literatures.- Chapter 5: And remember that the Maori athlete is perpetually fit A Discursive Analysis of Maori and Pasifika Athleticism in New Zealand literature.- Chapter 6: The Man the Dress and the Dressmaker Configurations of Masculinity in Contemporary Australian Literature and Film.- Chapter 7: Indian Masculinities in East African Fiction.- Chapter 8: Vulnerable Identities and the Aesthetics of Masculine Exhaustion in NeoNoir Stories from Hong Kong.- Chapter 9: Reconstructing Muslim Masculinities in South Asian Anglophone Literature.- Chapter 10: The Intimacy of Violence Masculinities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction.- Chapter 11: Trauma Violence and Empathy Literary Representations of Masculinity in Post Troubles Northern Irish Fiction.- Chapter 12: Masculinity Dominance and Nonhuman Animals in Margaret Atwoods Fictional Works.- Chapter 13: The Growing Time of the Soul JM Coetzee and the Riddle of Masculinity.- Chapter 14: What if I am not a romantic movie kind of guy Dismantling Patriarchal Husbandhood in Contemporary British Domestic Noir.- Chapter 15: The Cocksman the Father the Man Caribbean Hyper Masculinity.- Chapter 16: The smell of shame Transgression SelfDetermination and The Limits of Sexual Liberation in Transnational and Transgenerational Gay Male Narratives.- Chapter 17: Seahorse Masculinity Race and Sexuality in Latinx Poetry.- Chapter 18: Redemptive Intimacies An Eroto historiographical Approach to Jamaican Masculinities.- Chapter 19: Invulnerable Fictions in Collapse Rethinking Normative Masculinity and Vulnerability in Contemporary Anglophone Texts.- Chapter 20: Beyond the Black Macho and Gansta Alternative Black Masculinities by Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison.- Chapter 21: Searching for New Masculine Roles in Post Apartheid South Africa.- Chapter 22: Ecological Masculinity in Contemporary Westerns.
Josep M. Armengol is Professor of U.S. Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He has published on literary representations of masculinity in prestigious academic journals such as Signs, MELUS, Men and Masculinities, and Postcolonial Studies, among others. Some of his latest books include Masculinities and Literary Studies (Routledge, 2017), Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave, 2021), and Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film (Palgrave, 2023).
Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His most recent publications include To Oldie Go : From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier, in Armengol (ed.), Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave, 2021) and Parasites in a Host Country : Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Other Zombies in The Walking Dead (with Jesús Benito-Sánchez), in Amanda Ellen Gerke et al. (eds.), The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture (Brill, 2020).
