Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:383 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Masculinities
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030715953

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Josep M. Armengol is Professor of U.S. Literature and Gender Studies at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of Masculinities in Black and White: Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature (2014), among others, and is Director of the project ‘No Country for Old Men? Representations of Masculinity and Aging in Contemporary U.S. Fiction’.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Josep M. Armengol: No Country for Old Men? An Introduction.- Part I. GENDERING AGE.- Chapter 2. Juan González-Echeverría: Harvest Time for John Updike’s Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder than Gender.- Chapter 3. Sarah Hardy: Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex.- Chapter 4. Teresa Requena: Literary Representations of Aging Masculinities: Bodies and Privilege.- Part II. MEN’S AGING IN POPULAR FICTION.- Chapter 5. M. Isabel Santaulària I Capdevila: “You are all too old to do anything but get yourselves killed:” Age and Masculinity in Stephen King’s It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep.- Chapter 6. Ángel Mateos-Aparicio: ‘‘To Oldie Go”: From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier.- Part III. OLDER MEN IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR.- Chapter 7. Esther Zaplana: Self-Representation ‘Between Two’: Ageing Males, and the ‘Otherness within’ in Philip Roth’s Patrimony.- Chapter 8. Leonor Acosta-Bustamante: Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal.- Part IV. AGING BEYOND WHITENESS.- Chapter 9. Mar Gallego: Black Masculinities and Aging in Toni Morrison’s Novels.- Chapter 10. Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias: Aging Men in Contemporary Arab American Literature Written by Women.- Part V. QUEERING AGE.- Chapter 11. Josep M. Armengol: Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.- Chapter 12. Ignacio Ramos-Gay & Claudia Alonso-Recarte: On Long-lasting ‘Humanimal’ Companionships: Gayness, Aging and Disease in Steven Rowley’s Lily and the Octopus