The Routledge companion to masculinity in American literature and culture / [edited by] Lydia R. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Lydia R., 1980- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Masculinity in popular culture--United States.

Masculinity in popular culture.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (volumes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Studying masculinities in/through U.S. Literature : origins, development, and future / Josep M. Armengol

Masculinities in early America / Eran Zelnik

The marrow of white supremacy : problematic white masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition / Hyoseol Ha

A crisis in (female) masculinity : My Ántonia & the imaginative recreation of the Western Frontier / Rachel Warner

Boy, one day you'll be a man : adolescent masculinity in post-war American culture / Angelica De Vido

Lighting out for the territories : ecomasculinities in U.S. American literature / Stefan L. Brandt

"Queer(y)ing masculinities : revisited" / Bryant Keith Alexander

Heterostalgia : the logic of antifeminism / Michael Mayne

Hideous men / Erin Spampinato

Dominance-based man box culture and white supremacy / Mark Greene

When the sun sets in the east : American manhood and war since Vietnam / Ty Hawkins

The US Army "warrior" and military masculinity : the army recruiting campaigns and evolving "warrior" / Hyunyoung Moon

From toxic fantasy to political satire : masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk's post-Fight club fiction / Coco d'Hont

Frame thy fearful masculinity : locating a queer masculinity in Marvel's The Punisher / Reed Puc

Men playing together : new masculinities, sport, and contemporary fiction / Ryan Lackey

"To work without stopping" : masculinity and the Midwestern farm novel / Andy Oler

Outlaw America : the legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen's The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Lydia R. Cooper

The counter-masculine drive in contemporary reimaginations of the American road-trip narrative / Nicole Dib

A poetics of refusal : queer indigenous masculinity in Tommy Pico's nature poem / John Gamber

Negotiating the intersections of masculinity, disability, and normative gender roles in the U.S./Mexico borderlands : the tragedy of the self-made man / Rosemary Briseño

An empathetic art : Renwen 仁文 masculinity in Asian American literature / King-Kok Cheung

Inspiration porn, reclamation porn : a view of crip masculinity and micro-celebrity / Joshie Tikka and R. Noam Ostrander

Father figures and new masculinities in contemporary U.S. Literature : hegemonic and counter-hegemonic strategies of paternal representation / Sara Villamarín-Freire

"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 Hilson

Inverting the gaze : white male terror in film since classic Hollywood / David Pass

The erasure of asexuality : Sheldon's masculinity in the Big bang theory / Jana Fedtke

Fetishization of female masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor / Hailey J. Austin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to masculinity in American literature and culture.

ISBN:

9780367520090

0367520095

9781000504934

100050493X

9781000504958

1000504956

OCLC:

1273732758

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