The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture

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.

Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current reality and gives us language for imagining better futures.

Masculinity is more than a description of traits associated with particular performances of gender. It is more than a study of gender and social power. It is an examination of the ways in which gender affects our capacity to engage ethically with each other in complex human societies. This volume offers essays from a range of established, global experts in American masculinity as well as new and upcoming scholars in order to explore not just what masculinity once meant, has come to mean, and may mean in the future in the U.S.; it also articulates what is at stake with our conceptions of masculinity.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Introduction

Lydia R. Cooper

Part I: A Literary and Cultural History of American Masculinity

Chapter 1: Studying Masculinities in/through U.S. Literature: Origins, Development, and Future Josep M. Armengol

Chapter 2: Masculinities in Early America Eran Zelnik

Chapter 3: The Marrow of White Supremacy: Problematic White Masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition Hyoseol Ha

Chapter 4: A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: My Ántonia and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier Rachel Warner

Chapter 5: Boy, One Day You'll Be a Man: Adolescent Masculinity in Post-War American Culture Angelica De Vido

Chapter 6: Lighting Out for the Territories: Ecomasculinities in U.S. American Literature Stefan L. Brandt

Part II: Current Crises and New Directions

Chapter 7: "Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited" Bryant Keith Alexander

Chapter 8: Heterostalgia: The Logic of Antifeminism Michael Mayne

Chapter 9: Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews in Hindight Erin Spampinato

Chapter 10: Dominance-Based Man Box Culture and White Supremacy Mark Greene

Part III: War, Violence, and American Masculinity

Chapter 11: When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam Ty Hawkins

Chapter 12: The U.S. Army "Warrior" and Military Masculinity: The Army Recruiting Campaigns and Evolving "Warrior" Hyunyoung Moon

Chapter 13: From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire: Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk's Post-Fight Club Fiction Coco d'Hont

Chapter 14: Frame Thy Fearful Masculinity: Locating a Queer Masculinity in Marvel's The Punisher Reed Puc

Chapter 15: Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction Ryan Lackey

Part IV: Geographies of Masculinity

Chapter 16: "To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel Andy Oler

Chapter 17: Outlaw America: The Legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Lydia R. Cooper

Chapter 18: The Counter-Masculine Drive in Contemporary Reimaginations of the American Road-Trip Narrative Nicole Dib

Chapter 19: A Poetics of Refusal: Queer Indigenous Masculinity in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem John Gamber

Chapter 20: 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

Part V: Representation in Contemporary Literature, Film, TV, and New Media

Chapter 21: An Empathetic Art: Renwen Masculinity in Asian American Literature King-Kok Cheung

Chapter 22: Inspiration Porn, Reclamation Porn: A View of Crip Masculinity and Micro-celebrity T. Tikka and R. Noam Ostrander

Chapter 23: Father Figures and New Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Literature: Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Strategies of Paternal Representation Sara Villamarín-Freire

Chapter 24: "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

Chapter 25: Inverting the Gaze: White Male Terror in Film Since Classic Hollywood David Pass

Chapter 26: The Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon's Masculinity in The Big Bang Theory Jana Fedtke

Chapter 27: Fetishization of Female Masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor Hailey J. Austin