Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions

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As more and more work is being done in the name of the ever-growing field of study of literary representations of masculinities, it seems timely to not only review its development and main contributions to the larger field of masculinity studies, but also to look at its latest advances and new directions. These are precisely the two main aims of Masculinities and Literary Studies, which seeks to explore the conjunction between these two fields while exploring some of the latest developments and new directions resulting from such intersections. If much of the existing masculinity scholarship has traditionally been grounded in a specific discipline, this volume also seeks to provide an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of the latest interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship - namely, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, ecology, etc. - to the literary analysis, thus crossing the traditional boundary between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in new and profound ways. Presenting the latest advances in masculinity scholarship, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to gender and masculinity scholars from a wide variety of fields, including sociology and social work, psychology, philosophy, political science, and cultural and literary studies. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Introduction......Page 10 Part I Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities......Page 16 1 The Negro Goes to War......Page 18 2 Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”......Page 25 3 Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American Theater......Page 34 Part II Transnational Masculinities......Page 46 4 Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities......Page 48 5 Transnational Legacies and Masculinity Politics in The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao......Page 65 6 New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women......Page 75 Part III The Ages of Men......Page 86 7 “Men Who Cry in Their Sleep”: Aging Male Hysteria in Martin Amis’s London Stories......Page 88 8 Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Toni Morrison’s Black Boys......Page 98 9 Fighting the Monsters Inside: Masculinity, Agency, and the Aging Gay Man in Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenstein......Page 107 Part IV Masculinities and Affect......Page 116 10 Theorizing the Masculinity of Affect......Page 118 11 Men of War: Affect, Embodiment, and Western Heroic Masculinity in Dispatches and The Hurt Locker......Page 129 Part V Eco-masculinities......Page 140 12 The “Wild, Wild World”: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination......Page 142 13 Green Intersections: Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis......Page 152 Part VI Masculinities and/in Capitalism......Page 162 14 Masculinities and Financial Capitalism......Page 164 15 Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions......Page 177 16 “To Love What Death Doesn’t Touch”: Questioning Capitalist Masculinity in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch......Page 190 Part VII Epilogue Masculinity Studies: New Directions......Page 200 Index......Page 218