From the Delivered to the Dispatched Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Series
Auteur : Stilley Harriet
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood. Drawing on examples from the works of prolific contemporary American writers, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and Michael Herr, Stilley investigates hypermasculine male violence, the classical and grotesque body, as well as specific regional themes such as the Western frontier, the American Adam, the Southern Gothic and the Suburban Gothic.
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 "The land that he saw looked like a paradise. It was not, he knew."
Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever’s Bullet Park
2 "This-here river don’t go nowhere."
Fraudulent Frontiers and the Failure of the Adamic Archetype in James Dickey’s Deliverance
3 "A violence born of total helplessness."
Jane, Dick and the Deterministic Denial of the Black American Male in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
4 "White pussy is nothin but trouble."
Death, Desire and the Displacement of the Feminine Body in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
5 "They were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"
Martial Camouflage, Containment and Castration in Michael Herr’s Dispatches
Conclusion: "THIS IS NOT AN EXIT"
American Masculinity Since 1977
Works Cited
Index
Harriet Stilley teaches American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. Harriet’s work has been published in a number of American, British and European journals, including the Cormac McCarthy Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the European Journal of American Studies, and the European Journal of American Culture.
Date de parution : 09-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 11-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de From the Delivered to the Dispatched :
Mots-clés :
Persona; Bullet Park; American Fiction; Violate; Post-war literature; Chronic; Masculinity in American Literature; Wo; 20th Century fiction; Barren; 20th Century American Literature; Modern American Fiction; Cormac McCarthy; Dominant Fiction; Toni Morrison; Male Body; Michael Herr; Male Sex Role; James Dickey; Reactive Identity Formation; John Cheever; Annette Kolodny; violence; Postwar; hypermasculinity; Timeless; body; Middle Class American Men; Western Fronteir; Pristine; American Adam; Black Male; Southern Gothic; Good Life; Suburban Gothic; Young Men; feminism; Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian; feminist theory; David Savran; Marxist theory; Female Cadaver; Marxism; Dead Men; Postmodern; Paul Hammer; postmodernity; Morrison’s Fiction; Capitalism; American History; culture; mythology; folklore; consumerism; manhood; American manhood; 1970s; 1960s; queer theory; sexuality; class; race; Child of God; The Bluest Eyes; Deliverance; Dispatches; commodity culture; commodification; pop culture
