Masculinities and Literary Studies

Josep M. Armengol is Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies. English Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.Marta Bosch Vilarrubias is an assistant Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Barcelona.Àngels Carabí is Emeritus Professor at the University of Barcelona.Teresa Requena Pelegrí is a permanent lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona.

"What truly distinguishes the present volume from those preceding it is that instead of focusing on literary masculinities of a certain period or type, it combines multiple disciplinary perspectives and approaches to masculinities with literary analysis, resulting in a productive cross-fertilization of the social sciences and humanities."Marlee Fuhrmann, International Journal for Masculinity Studies."It seems that the volume Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions is an attempt to negotiate different theoretical attitudes within the field of masculinity studies and gives some new theoretical impulses. Among them we can find: reconfiguration of the disciplinary languages, focus on nature and bodily affects, and focus on late capitalism’s biopolitics of masculinity."Wojciech Smieja, Journal of Men and Masculinities.

• IntroductionPart 1. Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities1. Interrogating Racialized Masculinities2. What is Black Manhood? De-coupling Black Manhood from Black Masculinities and the Lives of Black Men3. Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: The Cases of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville4. Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American TheaterPart 2. Transnational Masculinities5. Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities6. Heroes, Losers or Geeks all the same? Transnational Masculinity Politics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)7. Gendering Terrorism in Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now (2005) and in Nabil Ayouch’s Horses of God (2012)8. New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women Part 3. The Ages of Man9. Aging Masculinities as Strategies of Resistance10. Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Toni Morrison’s Black Boys and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2015)11. Fighting the Monsters Inside to the End: Masculinity, Class and the Ageing Gay Man in Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenstein (1995)Part 4. Masculinities and Affect12. Theorizing Affective Masculinities13. Men of War: Affect, Embodiment and Western Heroic Masculinity in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008)Part 5. Eco-Masculinities14. The ‘Wild, Wild World’ –Masculinity and the Environment in the U.S. Literary Imagination from Cooper’s The Pioneers (1825) to T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla 15. Environmental Humanities and the Construction of Caring Masculinities in David Vann and Annie ProulxPart 6. Masculinites and/in Capitalism16. Masculinities and Financial Capitalism17. Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions18. The Shifting Value of Material Goods in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (2013)Part 7. Epilogue: New Directions in Masculinity Studies