Stefan Horlacher, Kevin Floyd

Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture

Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The editors and contributors stress the importance of understanding the context for more pluralistic, culturally differentiated, transnational masculinities, arguing that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and commonality simultaneously.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781409465980
• ISBN-10: 1409465985
• Artikelnr.: 41249904

Autorenporträt

Stefan Horlacher is Chair of English Literature at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and Kevin Floyd is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies: On the Interdependence
of National Identity and the Construction of Masculinity, Stefan Horlacher;
Chapter 2 The Early Cold Warrior on Screen: An All-Purpose Signifier?,
Kathleen Starck; Chapter 3 The Flexible Mr. Ripley: Noir Historicism and
Post-War Transnational Masculinity in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr.
Ripley, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Christopher Breu; Chapter 4 "And I Mean Is
It Any Wonder All the Men End up Emasculated?" Post-War Masculinities in
Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road and John Braine's Room at the Top,
Claudia Falk; Chapter 5 The Colors of Masculinity: Gender and the Camera
from Sixties Street Photographers to Paul Graham and Martin Parr, Christoph
Ribbat; Chapter 6 Accounting for a Crisis-A Transatlantic Analysis of Male
First-Person Narratives: Martin Amis's Money versus Evan S. Connell's The
Diary of a Rapist, Erik Pietschmann; Chapter 7 Anxious Men: Male
Friendships and Domesticity in James Dickey's Deliverance, Lisa Felstead;
Chapter 8 'Cubism' as Intersectionalism: John Berger's Figures of
Masculinity, Dirk Wiemann; Chapter 9 "It's One Hell of a Mess in Here":
Masculinity, the Myth of the Frontier, and the Renunciation of the Mother
in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, David Mamet's American Buffalo, and
Sam Shepard's True West, Christa Grewe-Volpp; Chapter 10 Constructions of
Masculinity in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Frank Chin's The
Chickencoop Chinaman, and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Angelika Köhler;
Chapter 11 Gendered and Racialized: Reclaiming Chinese American
Masculinities since the 1970s, Mirjam M. Frotscher;