Gender in American Literature and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-47753-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture

Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lutes, Jean M

Lutes, Jean

Travis, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gender Criticism in the Age of Trump Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis; Part I. Intimacies: 1. The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America Anna Mae Duane; 2. Post-Reproductive Female Sexuality and the Early American Novel Marion Rust; 3. The Effeminate Man in Nineteenth-Century America Travis Foster; 4. Rereading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory Ivy Schweitzer; 5. 'Unbounded Grief': Black Maternal Sorrow and the Literature of Slavery Shermaine M. Jones; 6. Rethinking Reproductive Freedom through Transpacific Narratives Yu-Fang Cho; 7. Slow Emergency: Life Writing, Dementia, Gender, and Care Rachel Adams; Part II. Aggressions: 8. Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) Theresa Strouth Gaul; 9. Intergenerational Memory and the Making of Indigenous Literary Kinships Susan Bernardin; 10. US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance Catherine Keyser; 11. Gender, Violence, and Accountability in Contemporary Queer Latina Writing Lourdes Torres; 12. The Literature of Racial Uplift and White Feminist Failure Brigitte Fielder; 13. Black Male Studies and Contemporary African American Writing Seulghee Lee; 14. Representations of White Masculinity in Veteran-Authored Iraq War Fiction Hamilton Carroll; 15. What a Doctor Should Look Like: Queer Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress in the Nineteenth Century Christine 'Xine' Yao; 16. Genderqueer: Literary and Gender Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Jaime Harker; 17. Fanfiction, Transformative Works, and Feminist Resistance in Digital Culture Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; 18. Vulnerable States: Immigration and Gender in American Literature Sigrid Anderson; 19. The Mahjar: Arab Women's Literary Culture in America at the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Claire Saylor; 20. Disabled Women's Life Writing and the Problem with Recovery Clare Mullaney; 21. Feeling, Memory, and Peoplehood in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry Mark Rifkin.

Über Autor(innen)

Lutes, Jean
Jean M. Lutes is the editor of Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly (2014) and the author of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1930 (2006). She is professor of English at Villanova University.

Travis, Jennifer
Jennifer Travis is the author of Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018); Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (2005), and the co-editor of Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods in Nineteenth Century American Literature (2018); and Boys Don't Cry: Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. (2002). She is professor and chair of the English department at St. John's University.