From the Delivered to the Dispatched - Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 "The land that he saw looked like a paradise. It was not, he knew."

Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever’s Bullet Park
2 "This-here river don’t go nowhere."

Fraudulent Frontiers and the Failure of the Adamic Archetype in James Dickey’s Deliverance
3 "A violence born of total helplessness."

Jane, Dick and the Deterministic Denial of the Black American Male in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
4 "White pussy is nothin but trouble."

Death, Desire and the Displacement of the Feminine Body in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
5 "They were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"

Martial Camouflage, Containment and Castration in Michael Herr’s Dispatches

Conclusion: "THIS IS NOT AN EXIT"

American Masculinity Since 1977

Works Cited

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Harriet Stilley teaches American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. Harriet’s work has been published in a number of American, British and European journals, including the Cormac McCarthy Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the European Journal of American Studies, and the European Journal of American Culture.

Zusammenfassung

From the Delivered to the Dispatched focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. In this rigorous study, Harriet Stilley shows the various ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between late capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harriet Stilley, Harriet (University of Edinburgh Stilley
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664824
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66482-4
• Seiten: 214
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1970 to c 1979, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1970 to c 1980, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men