Ecomasculinities : negotiating male gender identity in U.S. fiction / [edited by] Rubén Cenamor and Stefan L. Brandt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cenamor, Rubén, editor.

Brandt, Stefan Leonhard, editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Masculinity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Men in literature.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

While there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.

Contents:

The birth of literary ecomasculinities. The wild ones: ecomasculinities in the American literary imagination / Stefan L. Brandt

Men in nature: a critical analysis of the mythopoetic men's movement / Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman

Eco-men from the outer space? Mars and utopian masculinities in fin de siècle literature / Alessandra Calanchi

Ecomasculinities in American literature from 1950s to 1990s. A new man emerges: masculinities beyond capitalism and the eco-man in 1950s' America / Rubén Cenamor

Gender blending and psychic phenomena: forming ecomasculinities in Gravity's rainbow / Victoria Addis

Cormac McCarthy's eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape / Layla Hendow

The interrelated materiality of masculinities and the more-than-human-world in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Teresa Requena

The eco-man in contemporary cinema, tv and media. The film star as eco-warrior: Harrison Ford saves the planet / Virginia Luzón

True detective: not flourishing yet, but maybe germinating / Bill Phillips

Polar bears and electric plugs: green shopping and twenty-first century queer American masculinity / Evangeline M. Heiliger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ecomasculinities

ISBN:

9781498567541

1498567541

OCLC:

1057305412