1st Edition
Masculinities and Literary Studies Intersections and New Directions
I. Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities
The Negro Goes to War
Robert Reid-Pharr
Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: Herman Melville’s "Benito Cereno"
Josep M Armengol
Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American theater
Barbara Ozieblo
II. Transnational Masculinities
Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities
Jeff Hearn
Transnational Legacies and Masculinity Politics in The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Aishih Wehbe
New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women
Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias
III. The Ages of Men
"Men Who Cry in Their Sleep": Ageing Male Hysteria in Martin Amis’ London Stories.
Lynne Segal
Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Richard Linklater’s
Boyhood and Toni Morrison’s Black Boys
Mar Gallego
Fighting the Monsters Inside: Masculinity, Agency and the Ageing Gay Man in Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenstein
Sara Martín
IV. Masculinities and Affect
Theorizing Affective Masculinities
Todd W. Reeser
Men of War: Affect, Embodiment and Western Heroic Masculinity in Dispatches and The Hurt Locker
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
V. Eco-Masculinities
The ‘Wild, Wild World’: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination
Stefan Brandt
Green Intersections: Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis
Teresa Requena
VI. Masculinities and/in Capitalism
Masculinities and Financial Capitalism
Penny Griffin
Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions
David Leverenz
"To Love What Death Doesn’t Touch": Questioning Capitalist Masculinity in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Mercè Cuenca
VII. Epilogue: Masculinity Studies: New Directions
Robert Reid-Pharr, Jeff Hearn, Lynne Segal, Todd Reeser, Stefan Brandt, Michael Kimmel in conversation with the members of the research group "Constructing New Masculinities" (CNM), University of Barcelona
Biography
Josep M. Armengol is Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies. English Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Marta Bosch Vilarrubias is an assistant Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Barcelona.
Àngels Carabí is Emeritus Professor at the University of Barcelona.
Teresa Requena Pelegrí is a permanent lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona.
What truly distinguishes the present volume from those preceding it is that instead of focusing on literary masculinities of a certain period or type, it combines multiple disciplinary perspectives and approaches to masculinities with literary analysis, resulting in a productive cross-fertilization of the social sciences and humanities.
Marlee Fuhrmann, International Journal for Masculinity Studies
