Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture

In Search of Good Men
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-22146-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of positive representations of men in fictional and non-fictional texts. The editors show how ideas of hegemonic and toxic masculinity have been too fixed on the exploration of dominance and subservience, and too little on the men (and the male characters in fiction) who behave following other ethical, personal and socially accepted patterns. Bringing together research from different periods and genres, this collection provides broad, multidisciplinary insights into alternative representations of masculinity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santaulària, M. Isabel

Martín, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Beyond Toxic Patriarchal Masculinity.- Part I. Literature.- 2. The Visible-Invisible ‘Good Man’ in Jane Austen’s The Watsons.- 3. Ishmael’s Detoxing Process: Escaping Domestic Homogeneity in Moby-Dick.- 4. From Brutal to Spiritual Men in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry and Drama: Sweeney and Beyond.- 5. Hybrid Masculinities in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”.- Part II. Transnational Fictions.- 6. Of Tender Hearts and Good Men: Reading Australian Masculinity in Tim Winton’s Fiction.- 7. “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: The Making of Michael ‘Digger’ Digson.- 8. Black Masculinities in the Age of #BLM: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.- Part III. Fantasy.- 9. “Some Wizards Just Like to Boast that Theirs Are Bigger and Better”: Harry Potter and the Rejection of Patriarchal Power.- 10. A Lover Boy with Battle Scars: Romance, War Fiction, and the Construction of Peeta Mellark as a Good Man in The Hunger Games Trilogy.- 11. Masculinity and Heroism in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: The Case of Good Captain Carrot.- Part IV. Science Fiction.- 12. Skywalker: Bad Fathers and Good Sons.- 13. Changing the Script of “Human Is”: Re-Visioning the Good (Hu)Man in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.- 14. Between Therapy and Revolution: Mr. Robot’s Ambivalence towards Hacker Masculinity.- Part V. Close to Life.- 15. A Few Good Old Men: Revising Ageing Masculinities in Last Tango in Halifax.- 16. Let the Little Children Come to Me: Fred Rogers, the Good Man as TV Educator.- 17. The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr. Julia Child.

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Martín is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Among her books are Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in British Fiction: From Hitler to Voldemort (2019) and Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film: Focus on Men (2020). 

M. Isabel Santaulària is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Linguistics, Universitat de Lleida, Spain. She has published a book on serial killer fiction, El monstruo humano: Una introducción a la ficción de los asesinos en serie (2009), and numerous articles in national and international journals.