This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities.
This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities.
Acknowledgments Introduction U.S. American Hypermasculinities Ironic Failed Heroism Aesthetics as Critique Chapter One: An Ironic Contention: The Heroic Failure of the Kid in Blood Meridian The Origins of American Frontier Hypermasculinities Hypermasculinities on the Frontier The Judge as Narrative Force Images of Dead Children Christian Imagery The Kid as Ironic Hero Chapter Two: A Hero by Default: John Grady Cole as Hypermasculine Heroic Failure in All the Pretty Horses Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses Cowboy Hypermasculinities The Tenuousness of Identities Based on Myth An America with No Room for a Cowboy Mexican Context Homosexuality Failed Heroism Chapter Three: Black Masculinities and Cultural Incest in Song of Solomon American Context Blackness as an Invention of Whites Black Masculinities Aesthetics: Flight toward Orality Pilate as Failed Hero The Trafficking of Women and the Incest Taboo A Politics of Failure Chapter Four: Staggerlee in the Closet: Rufus Scott as Failed Ironic Hero in Another Country Morrison, Baldwin, and Family Staggerlee as Hypermasculine Folkloric Referent Politics of Failure American Context: Baldwin, Cleaver, and Mailer Closeted Sexualities Blackness Defined by Whites Sex, Race, and Heroic Failure Conclusion: Masculinity as Hypermasculine Failure References Cited About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction U.S. American Hypermasculinities Ironic Failed Heroism Aesthetics as Critique Chapter One: An Ironic Contention: The Heroic Failure of the Kid in Blood Meridian The Origins of American Frontier Hypermasculinities Hypermasculinities on the Frontier The Judge as Narrative Force Images of Dead Children Christian Imagery The Kid as Ironic Hero Chapter Two: A Hero by Default: John Grady Cole as Hypermasculine Heroic Failure in All the Pretty Horses Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses Cowboy Hypermasculinities The Tenuousness of Identities Based on Myth An America with No Room for a Cowboy Mexican Context Homosexuality Failed Heroism Chapter Three: Black Masculinities and Cultural Incest in Song of Solomon American Context Blackness as an Invention of Whites Black Masculinities Aesthetics: Flight toward Orality Pilate as Failed Hero The Trafficking of Women and the Incest Taboo A Politics of Failure Chapter Four: Staggerlee in the Closet: Rufus Scott as Failed Ironic Hero in Another Country Morrison, Baldwin, and Family Staggerlee as Hypermasculine Folkloric Referent Politics of Failure American Context: Baldwin, Cleaver, and Mailer Closeted Sexualities Blackness Defined by Whites Sex, Race, and Heroic Failure Conclusion: Masculinity as Hypermasculine Failure References Cited About the Author
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