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"Wooden man"? : masculinities in the work of J.M. Coetzee (Boyhood, Youth and Summertime) / Daniel Matias.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.3.C58 Z84 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matias, Daniel, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Masculinity studies ; v.7.
- Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations ; vol. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Men in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
- Summary:
- This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee's trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man's development through various stages of life and, equally, different geographical locations, such as apartheid South Africa, sixties London and South Africa in the throes of democratic revolution. Attentive to the masculine formations that the trilogy represents, this work draws on conceptual frameworks and methodologies provided by the joint critique of gender and postcolonial studies, and is particularly animated by the discussions raised by men's studies, a field that is nowadays patently interested in postcolonial / transnational masculinities. In this vein, the work discusses not only aspects related to violence and gendered formations as they occur and manifest themselves in the intersections of the local and global, but also the possibilities of refashioning identities increasingly attentive to an ethics of Otherness, one of the staples of Coetzee's writing.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Coetzee, gender and ethics
- Masculinities
- Becoming a man
- Making men: places of masculinities
- Fathers of the nation
- Family outcast
- Art of one
- Making the other: alternatives to hegemony
- Race and masculinities
- "Shades and shadows of life": women in dark times
- Queer other
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781433138065
- 1433138069
- OCLC:
- 968212234
- Publisher Number:
- 99974462611
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