Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel : Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin / / by Josef Benson
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| Autore: |
Benson Josef <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel : Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin / / by Josef Benson
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (159 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.509353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Masculinity in literature | |
| Men in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-3761-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458534803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contemporary American literature.