LEADER 03507nam 2200649 450 001 9910458534803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4422-3761-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001334229 035 $a(EBL)1752875 035 $a(OCoLC)887156178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289084 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11949741 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289084 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11295547 035 $a(PQKB)11185974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1752875 035 $a(PPN)229842836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1752875 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10899156 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL630714 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001334229 100 $a20140808h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHypermasculinities in the contemporary novel $eCormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin /$fby Josef Benson 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (159 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary American Literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-3760-0 311 $a1-306-99463-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a3 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 330 $aThis book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities. 410 0$aContemporary American literature. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aMen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a813/.509353 700 $aBenson$b Josef$f1974-$0970399 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458534803321 996 $aHypermasculinities in the contemporary novel$92205622 997 $aUNINA