Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The editors and contributors stress the importance of understanding the context for more pluralistic, culturally differentiated, transnational masculinities, arguing that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and commonality simultaneously.

Auteur

Stefan Horlacher is Chair of English Literature at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and Kevin Floyd is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, USA.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies: On the Interdependence of National Identity and the Construction of Masculinity, Stefan Horlacher; Chapter 2 The Early Cold Warrior on Screen: An All-Purpose Signifier?, Kathleen Starck; Chapter 3 The Flexible Mr. Ripley: Noir Historicism and Post-War Transnational Masculinity in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Christopher Breu; Chapter 4 "And I Mean Is It Any Wonder All the Men End up Emasculated?" Post-War Masculinities in Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road and John Braine's Room at the Top, Claudia Falk; Chapter 5 The Colors of Masculinity: Gender and the Camera from Sixties Street Photographers to Paul Graham and Martin Parr, Christoph Ribbat; Chapter 6 Accounting for a Crisis-A Transatlantic Analysis of Male First-Person Narratives: Martin Amis's Money versus Evan S. Connell's The Diary of a Rapist, Erik Pietschmann; Chapter 7 Anxious Men: Male Friendships and Domesticity in James Dickey's Deliverance, Lisa Felstead; Chapter 8 'Cubism' as Intersectionalism: John Berger's Figures of Masculinity, Dirk Wiemann; Chapter 9 "It's One Hell of a Mess in Here": Masculinity, the Myth of the Frontier, and the Renunciation of the Mother in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, David Mamet's American Buffalo, and Sam Shepard's True West, Christa Grewe-Volpp; Chapter 10 Constructions of Masculinity in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Frank Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman, and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Angelika Köhler; Chapter 11 Gendered and Racialized: Reclaiming Chinese American Masculinities since the 1970s, Mirjam M. Frotscher;