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Vulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood / Cynthia Barounis.
Van Pelt Library PS228.M37 B37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Canon (Literature).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This work revisits canonical works of American literature, as well as more recent works, in order to argue that while we tend to understand queerness and disability as posing a crisis to masculinity, for many writers, these categories serve as vital resources for thinking through and constructing American masculinity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Bodies that Leak: American Masculinity and Anti-Prophylactic Citizenship
- "An Inherent Weakness of the Constitution": Jack London's Revolting Men
- "Love or Eugenics?": Faulkner and Fitzgerald's Crip Children
- "Not the Usual Pattern": James Baldwin and the DSM
- Post-AIDS Permeability: Samuel Delany and Anti-Prophylaxis
- Prescribing Pleasure: Asexuality, Debility, and Trans Memoir
- Epilogue: Against Queer Resilience.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- Vulnerable constitutions.
- ISBN:
- 9781439915066
- 1439915067
- 9781439915073
- 1439915075
- OCLC:
- 1059256948
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