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Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel
Josef Benson
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Description for Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel
This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities. Series: Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Issues of race, gender, women’s rights, masculinity, and sexuality continue to be debated on the national scene. These subjects have also been in the forefront of American literature, particularly in the last fifty years. One significant trend in contemporary fiction has been the failure of the heroic masculine protagonist. In Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, Josef Benson examines key literary works of the twentieth century, notably Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992), Song of Solomon (1977), and Another Country (1960). Benson argues that exaggerated masculinities originated on the American frontier ... Read more
Issues of race, gender, women’s rights, masculinity, and sexuality continue to be debated on the national scene. These subjects have also been in the forefront of American literature, particularly in the last fifty years. One significant trend in contemporary fiction has been the failure of the heroic masculine protagonist. In Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, Josef Benson examines key literary works of the twentieth century, notably Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992), Song of Solomon (1977), and Another Country (1960). Benson argues that exaggerated masculinities originated on the American frontier ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
158
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442237605
SKU
V9781442237605
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About Josef Benson
Josef Benson is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. Benson’s cultural history, literary and theoretical criticism, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in over twenty publications, including The Raymond Carver Review, The Journal of Bisexuality, The Adirondack Review, and Southwestern American Literature.
Reviews for Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel
In this reading of novels by Morrison, McCarthy, and Baldwin, Benson seeks to reframe cultural ideals of masculinity. He first articulates a connection between the rugged frontiersman of southern lore and the stereotypical black hypersexual male by understanding both as arising from rural southern white ideals of hypermasculinity. He then reads Morrison, Baldwin, and McCarthy as interrogating that hypermasculine identity through ... Read more