The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture 1st Edition by Lydia Cooper 1000504956 9781000504958

Part I: A Literary and Cultural History of American Masculinity

1 Studying Masculinities in/through U.S. Literature: Origins, Development, and Future

A Literary Review of American Masculinities in Literature

Current and Future Directions: an Intersectional Analysis of Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Slave Narrative

Notes

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2 Masculinities in Early America

The British Atlantic World

Atlantic Slavery

Borderlands

Settler Colonialism

Notes

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3 The Marrow of White Supremacy: Problematic White Masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition

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4 A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: My Ántonia and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier

Prairie Tomboys and Two Little Savages: Cather and the Boy Book

Indians and Immigrants: Constructions of Whiteness at the Turn of the Century

White Male Fantasies of the Frontier, Or, Cather’s “Stone Butch Exceptionalism”

Notes

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5 Boy, One Day You’ll Be a Man: Adolescent Masculinity in Post-War American Culture

No Girls Allowed: Masculinity in the Adolescent Friendship Group

Stand By Me: Lone Masculinity

Conclusion

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6 Lighting Out for the Territories: Ecomasculinities in U.S. American Literature

“Wild Delights”: Romanticism and the Birth of Literary Ecomasculinity

“Walking Like a Man”: Darwinist Ecomasculinities in Realism and Modernism

Ecological Masculinities: World Agency and Fluid Subjectivities in Postmodernist Writing

Conclusion

Notes

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Part II: Current Crises and New Directions

7 “Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited”

Why Discussions on Masculinity Still Matter

“In Just Seven Days” (I Can Make You a Man)

“Straight Acting Seeks the Same,” or Queer Masculinities

A Queer Read of Jussie Smollet: A Case Study in Manipulative Masculinities

Queer Masculinities and Querying Masculinity: A Conclusion

Notes

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8 Heterostalgia: The Logic of Antifeminism

Notes

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9 Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews in Hindsight

Part I

Part II

Part III

Notes

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10 Dominance-Based Man Box Culture and White Supremacy

The Act Like a Man Box

The Suppression of Boys’ Emotional Expression

Policing, Anxiety, and Violence

The Denigration of the Feminine

Masculinity Extremists and Racism

The Cost to Humankind

Our Failure as Men

Break Out of the Man Box

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Part III: War, Violence, and American Masculinity

11 When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam

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12 The U.S. Army “Warrior” and Mtary Masculinity: The Army Recruiting Campaigns and Evolving “Warrior”

The United States and the Militaryili

The Emergence of the “Warrior” Concept in the U.S. Army

The Army Recruiting Campaigns and the “Warrior” Concept

The “Warriors Wanted” Campaign

The “What’s Your Warrior?” Campaign

Is the New “Warrior” Ideal New?

Conclusion

Notes

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13 From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire: Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Post-Fight Club Fiction

(De)Constructing Masculinity and the Male Body in Haunted (2005)

The Masculine Myth and the Body Politic in Rant (2007)

Transnational Masculinity, Terrorism and Political Satire in Pygmy (2009)

Conclusion: From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire

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14 Frame Thy Fearful Masculinity: Locating a Queer Masculinity in Marvel’s The Punisher

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15 Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction

Literary Masculinities in Context

Throwing Away Masculinity in The Art of Fielding

Reenacting Masculinity in The Throwback Special

Notes

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Part IV: Geographies of Masculinity

16 “To Work Without Stopping”: Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel

Notes

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17 Outlaw America: The Legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

A Brief History of Westerns and American Masculinity

The Outlaw Jesse James

Will the Real Jesse James Please Stand Up

Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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18 The Counter-Masculine Drive in Contemporary Reimaginations of the American Road-Trip Narrative

The Iconicity of the Road-Trip Narrative

Road Models and Role Models in Flaming Iguanas

Into the Beautiful North: Undermined Trajectories and Reverse Rescues

Notes

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19 A Poetics of Refusal: Queer Indigenous Masculinity in Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem

Notes

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20 Negotiating the Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Normative Gender Roles in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: The Tragedy of the Self-Made Man

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Part V: Representation in Contemporary Literature, Film, TV, and New Media

21 An Empathetic Art: Renwen 仁文 Masculinity in Asian American Literature

“One Man’s Hysteria—Real and Imagined—in the Twentieth Century”

“Phoenix Eyes”

“I’d Love You to Want Me”

Conclusion

Notes

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22 Inspiration Porn, Reclamation Porn: A View of Crip Masculinity and Micro-celebrity

Disabled Normativity and Legible Masculinity: Life-blogging, Fitness Production, and Crip-comedians on YouTube

Reclaiming Inspiration, Queer Crip Porn, and Other Disidentifications

Conclusion

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23 Father Figures and New Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Literature: Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Strategies of Paternal Representation

Fatherhood and Hegemonic Masculinity: An Overview

From Breadwinning to the New Father Role: A Brief History of Hegemonic Fatherhood in the U.S.

The “Father Wound”

Can We Recuperate the Father?: Strategies of Contra-hegemonic Resistance

Conclusion

Notes

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24 “I’m making up for all those years when I didn’t even know I had a cock”: Toxic Masculinity in Gay Erotic Fiction

1960s Gay Pulp: The Straight Man as the Butt of Queer Jokes

Hypermasculinity and Misogyny in 1970s and 1980s Gay Erotic Fiction

The Fall of the Masculinist Gatekeepers: The 1990s and Beyond

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25 Inverting the Gaze: White Male Terror in Film Since Classic Hollywood

Notes

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26 The Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon’s Masculinity in The Big Bang Theory

From Pathologization to A/sexual Identity

The Intersections of Asexuality and Disability in The Big Bang Theory

A/Sexual Sheldon

The Erasure of Asexuality

Conclusion

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27 Fetishization of Female Masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor

Superhero Masculinity as Performance

Fetishization of the Superhero

Female Masculinity and Toxic Geek Masculinity

From Savage to Sensational: She-Hulk and the Monstrous Feminine

Big Barda and the Phallic Mega-Rod

The Mighty Thor and Valkyrie: From Worthy to Women-Only Spaces

Conclusion

Notes

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Index