LEADER 04905nam 22006855 450 001 9910824770803321 005 20221128051255.0 010 $a1-4875-1596-0 010 $a1-4875-1595-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487515959 035 $a(CKB)4100000007164637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5602602 035 $a(DE-B1597)521232 035 $a(OCoLC)1076269183 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487515959 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107646 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007164637 100 $a20190430d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLeading with the Chin $eWriting American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960-1989 /$fBrad Congdon 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) 311 08$a1-4875-0275-3 311 08$a1-4875-2216-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [213]-268) and index. 327 $a2. "Suck in That Gut, America!": JFK's Exemplary Masculinities3. Getting a Grip on the Runaway World: The Author as Exemplary Masculinity; 4. Conclusion; Conclusion: How to Be a Man; Notes; Works Cited; Index 327 $a3. Fugitives from the Gender Order: Best-Kept Boys and Queer Utopias4. Conclusion; Part Three: Cold Warriors of the 1980s; 5 Sexual Fallout in Tim O'Brien's The Nuclear Age; 1. Cold War Discourse and Gender Trouble in The Nuclear Age; 2. Cold Warriors and Cowboys: "Somewhere the Duke Is Smiling"; 3. Retrenching the Domestic Sphere in "Grandma's Pantry"; 4. "Ovaries Like Hand Grenades": Emphasized Femininities in The Nuclear Age; 5. Conclusion; 6 Don DeLillo in the American Kitchen; 1. "Men in Small Rooms": American Masculinity, American Kitchens 327 $a3. "James Baldwin Tells Us All How to Cool It This Summer"4. Conclusion; Part Two: "The Richness of Life Itself" in the 1970s; 3 Low-Rent Tragedies of Beset Manhood; 1. "The Market Represents": Esquire, Carver, and Consumer Realism; 2. Carver's First Esquire Story: "Neighbors" and the "Space" of Advertising; 3. "What Is It?" and "Collectors" -- Reified Masculinities, Diminished Selfhood; 4. Conclusion; 4 True Men and Queer Spaces in Truman Capote's Answered Prayers; 1. Gay Visibility and Esquire's Queer '70s; 2. Capote's Critique of Heteronormativity 327 $aCover; Page i; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Crisis of Masculinity and the Problem of Identity; Theoretical and Methodological Background; Case Study: November 1958; Chapter Breakdown; Part One: Recovering Masculinity in the 1960s; 1 American Dreams, Gendered Nightmares; 1. The Crisis of Masculinity and the Problem of Conformity; 2. Hegemonic Masculinity in An American Dream; 3. An American Dream and Esquire Magazine; 4. Conclusion; 2 Cooling It with James Baldwin; 1. Baldwin's Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity; 2. Baldwin's Queer Critique of Race in Esquire 330 $aLeading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important shifts in American masculinity. Using the works of these six authors as case studies, Leading with the Chin argues that Esquire permitted writers to confront national fantasies of American masculinity as they were impacted by the rise of neoliberalism, civil rights and gay rights, and the cultural dominance of the professional-managerial class. Applying the methodologies of periodical studies and the theoretical concerns of masculinity studies, this book recontextualizes the prose and fiction of these authors by analyzing them in the material context of the magazine. Relating each author's articulation of masculinity to the advertisements, editorials, and articles published in each issue, Leading with the Chin shows that Esquire reflected and helped to shape the forces that structured American masculinity in the twentieth century. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in literature 610 $aAmerican literature. 610 $aEsquire. 610 $aadvertising. 610 $amagazines. 610 $amanhood. 610 $amanliness. 610 $amasculinities. 610 $amasculinity. 610 $amaterial culture. 610 $aperiodicals. 610 $apopular culture. 610 $apostmodernism. 610 $aprint culture. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aCongdon$b Brad, $01696853 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824770803321 996 $aLeading with the Chin$94077122 997 $aUNINA