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Anxious Men

Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Av Clive Baldwin

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Focusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with contemporary notions of masculinity. It draws on gender theory and analysis of writers from diverse backgrounds of race, class and sexuality to provide rich comparative insights into the constitution of American masculinity in fiction. The extensive range of novels considered includes fresh analyses of key authors such as James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Ann Petry, J. D. Salinger and Gore Vidal.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-05-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 566 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474423878
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Clive Baldwin is Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University and formerly Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts, The Open University. His publications include a review of Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 in Culture, Society & Masculinities, 8:1, 2016, 'Digressing from the point: Holden Caulfield's women' in Sarah Graham. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (London: Routledge, 2007), and ‘"A certain ill-defined disgrace": masculinity and sexuality in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach', English Review, 2011.

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Anxious Men is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship concerned with American masculinity as Baldwin explores how “diverse, contradictory, conflicted and contested” it is during the 1940s and 1950s (235). The legacy of the Depression and the Second World War created a crisis over what constituted a masculine identity, which, as Baldwin investigates, led to conservatism and rebellion. The array of masculine representations explored in the study, from office workers to cowboys, soldiers, queer representations, and minority perspectives, provides evidence of how rich and diverse contradictions were to constructions of the masculine gender during the early Cold War era.

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