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This project provides an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship to literary analysis, bridging the traditional gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in radically new and profound ways.
List of 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
About the author
Josep M. Armengol is Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies. English Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Marta Bosch Vilarrubias is an assistant Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Barcelona.
Àngels Carabí is Emeritus Professor at the University of Barcelona.
Teresa Requena Pelegrí is a permanent lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Summary
This project provides an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship to literary analysis, bridging the traditional gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in radically new and profound ways.
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What truly distinguishes the present volume from those preceding it is that instead of focusing on literary masculinities of a certain period or type, it combines multiple disciplinary perspectives and approaches to masculinities with literary analysis, resulting in a productive cross-fertilization of the social sciences and humanities.
Marlee Fuhrmann, International Journal for Masculinity Studies
