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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis

By Sally Robinson

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0231112920, 9780231112925
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1722470 bytes)
Pages
288\285
Time added
2015-09-08 08:33:13

Description

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society -- as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind -- Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.

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