1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001718580203316

Autore

KERMODE, Frank

Titolo

John Donne / Frank Kermode

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Longmans, 1957

Descrizione fisica

48 p. ; 22 cm

Collocazione

II i C 558 (7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791014103321

Autore

Benson Josef <1974->

Titolo

Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel : Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin / / by Josef Benson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-3761-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Contemporary American Literature

Disciplina

813/.509353

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Men in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; American Hypermasculinities; Ironic Failed Heroism; Aesthetics as Critique; Notes; 1 An Ironic Contention; 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; Notes; 2 A Hero by Default; 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; Notes

3 Black Masculinities and Cultural Incest in Song of SolomonAmerican 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; Notes; 4 Staggerlee in the Closet; 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; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; References Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>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.</span></span>