Leading with the Chin : Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960-1989 / / Brad Congdon

• Autore: Congdon Brad
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages)
• Disciplina: 810.9/353
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Masculinity in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: American literature; Esquire; advertising; magazines; manhood; manliness; masculinities; masculinity; material culture; periodicals; popular culture; postmodernism; print culture
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 2. "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 ; 3. 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 ; 3. "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 ; Cover; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Leading 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Leading with the Chin
• ISBN: 1-4875-1596-0; 1-4875-1595-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824770803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II