03507nam 2200649 450 991045853480332120200520144314.01-4422-3761-9(CKB)2550000001334229(EBL)1752875(OCoLC)887156178(SSID)ssj0001289084(PQKBManifestationID)11949741(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289084(PQKBWorkID)11295547(PQKB)11185974(MiAaPQ)EBC1752875(PPN)229842836(Au-PeEL)EBL1752875(CaPaEBR)ebr10899156(CaONFJC)MIL630714(EXLCZ)99255000000133422920140808h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHypermasculinities in the contemporary novel Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin /by Josef BensonLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,2014.©20141 online resource (159 p.)Contemporary American LiteratureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4422-3760-0 1-306-99463-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; Notes3 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<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>Contemporary American literature.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureMen in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Men in literature.813/.509353Benson Josef1974-970399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458534803321Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel2205622UNINA