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Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current reality and gives us language for imagining better futures.
Masculinity is more than a description of traits associated with particular performances of gender. It is more than a study of gender and social power. It is an examination of the ways in which gender affects our capacity to engage ethically with each other in complex human societies. This volume offers essays from a range of established, global experts in American masculinity as well as new and upcoming scholars in order to explore not just what masculinity once meant, has come to mean, and may mean in the future in the U.S.; it also articulates what is at stake with our conceptions of masculinity.
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Introduction
Lydia R. Cooper
Part I: A Literary and Cultural History of American Masculinity Chapter 1: Studying Masculinities in/through U.S. Literature: Origins, Development, and Future
Josep M. ArmengolChapter 2: Masculinities in Early America
Eran ZelnikChapter 3: The Marrow of White Supremacy: Problematic White Masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt's
The Marrow of Tradition Hyoseol HaChapter 4: A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity:
My Ántonia and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier
Rachel WarnerChapter 5: Boy, One Day You'll Be a Man: Adolescent Masculinity in Post-War American Culture
Angelica De VidoChapter 6: Lighting Out for the Territories: Ecomasculinities in U.S. American Literature
Stefan L. BrandtPart II: Current Crises and New DirectionsChapter 7: "Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited"
Bryant Keith AlexanderChapter 8: Heterostalgia: The Logic of Antifeminism
Michael MayneChapter 9: Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace's
Brief Interviews in Hindight
Erin SpampinatoChapter 10: Dominance-Based Man Box Culture and White Supremacy
Mark GreenePart III: War, Violence, and American MasculinityChapter 11: When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam
Ty HawkinsChapter 12: The U.S. Army "Warrior" and Military Masculinity: The Army Recruiting Campaigns and Evolving "Warrior"
Hyunyoung MoonChapter 13: From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire: Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk's Post-
Fight Club Fiction
Coco d'HontChapter 14: Frame Thy Fearful Masculinity: Locating a Queer Masculinity in Marvel's
The Punisher Reed PucChapter 15: Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction
Ryan LackeyPart IV: Geographies of MasculinityChapter 16: "To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel
Andy OlerChapter 17: Outlaw America: The Legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen's
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Lydia R. CooperChapter 18: The Counter-Masculine Drive in Contemporary Reimaginations of the American Road-Trip Narrative
Nicole Dib Chapter 19: A Poetics of Refusal: Queer Indigenous Masculinity in Tommy Pico's
Nature Poem John GamberChapter 20: Negotiating the Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Normative Gender Roles in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: The Tragedy of the Self-Made Man
Rosemary BriseñoPart V: Representation in Contemporary Literature, Film, TV, and New MediaChapter 21: An Empathetic Art:
Renwen¿¿Masculinity in Asian American Literature
King-Kok CheungChapter 22: Inspiration Porn, Reclamation Porn: A View of Crip Masculinity and Micro-celebrity
T. Tikka and R. Noam Ostrander Chapter 23: Father Figures and New Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Literature: Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Strategies of Paternal Representation
Sara Villamarín-FreireChapter 24: "I'm making up for all those years when I didn't even know I had a cock": Toxic Masculinity in Gay Erotic Fiction
Mica HilsonChapter 25: Inverting the Gaze: White Male Terror in Film Since Classic Hollywood
David PassChapter 26: The Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon's Masculinity in
The Big Bang Theory Jana FedtkeChapter 27: Fetishization of Female Masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor
Hailey J. Austin
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Lydia R. Cooper is associate professor of contemporary American and Native American literature and chair of the department of English at Creighton University. She is the author of Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature (2021); Masculinities in Literature of the American West (2016), and No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in the Novels (2011). Her work on contemporary American and Native American writers has appeared in journals such as GLQ, Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Novel, Critique, Studies in American Indian Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
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The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture offers scholarly examinations of representations of masculinities in American literary and cultural artifacts from the early colonial period to the present, with a focus on contemporary crises, possibilities, and opportunities.
