Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture

<p>Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, <i>The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture</i> suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current reality and gives us language for imagining better futures. </p><p>Masculinity is more than a description of traits associated with particular performances of gender. It is more than a study of gender and social power. It is an examination of the ways in which gender affects our capacity to engage ethically with each other in complex human societies. This volume offers essays from a range of established, global experts in American masculinity as well as new and upcoming scholars in order to explore not just what masculinity once meant, has come to mean, and may mean in the future in the U.S.; it also articulates what is at stake with our conceptions of masculinity.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Lydia R. Cooper </p><p><strong>Part I: A Literary and Cultural History of American Masculinity</strong></p><p> Chapter 1: Studying Masculinities in/through U.S. Literature: Origins, Development, and Future <i>Josep M. Armengol</i></p><p>Chapter 2: Masculinities in Early America <i>Eran Zelnik</i></p><p>Chapter 3: The Marrow of White Supremacy: Problematic White Masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt’s <i>The Marrow of Tradition Hyoseol Ha</i></p><p>Chapter 4: A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: <i>My Ántonia</i> and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier <i>Rachel Warner</i></p><p>Chapter 5: Boy, One Day You’ll Be a Man: Adolescent Masculinity in Post-War American Culture <i>Angelica De Vido</i></p><p>Chapter 6: Lighting Out for the Territories: Ecomasculinities in U.S. American Literature <i>Stefan L. Brandt</i></p><p><strong>Part II: Current Crises and New Directions</strong></p><p>Chapter 7: "Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited" <i>Bryant Keith Alexander</i></p><p>Chapter 8: Heterostalgia: The Logic of Antifeminism <i>Michael Mayne</i></p><p>Chapter 9: Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace's <em>Brief Interviews </em>in Hindight <i>Erin Spampinato</i></p><p>Chapter 10: Dominance-Based Man Box Culture and White Supremacy <i>Mark Greene</i></p><p><strong>Part III: War, Violence, and American Masculinity</strong></p><p>Chapter 11: When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam <em>Ty Hawkins</em></p><p>Chapter 12: The U.S. Army "Warrior" and Military Masculinity: The Army Recruiting Campaigns and Evolving "Warrior" <i>Hyunyoung Moon</i></p><p>Chapter 13: From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire: Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Post-<i>Fight Club </i>Fiction <i>Coco d’Hont</i></p><p>Chapter 14: Frame Thy Fearful Masculinity: Locating a Queer Masculinity in Marvel’s <i>The Punisher Reed Puc</i></p><p>Chapter 15: Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction <i>Ryan Lackey</i></p><p><strong>Part IV: Geographies of Masculinity</strong></p><p>Chapter 16: "To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel <i>Andy Oler</i></p><p>Chapter 17: Outlaw America: The Legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen’s <i>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford</i> <i>Lydia R. Cooper</i></p><p>Chapter 18: The Counter-Masculine Drive in Contemporary Reimaginations of the American Road-Trip Narrative <i>Nicole Dib</i> </p><p>Chapter 19: A Poetics of Refusal: Queer Indigenous Masculinity in Tommy Pico’s <i>Nature Poem John Gamber</i></p><p>Chapter 20: Negotiating the Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Normative Gender Roles in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: The Tragedy of the Self-Made Man <i>Rosemary Briseño</i></p><p><strong>Part V: Representation in Contemporary Literature, Film, TV, and New Media</strong></p><p>Chapter 21: An Empathetic Art: <i>Renwen</i>仁文Masculinity in Asian American Literature <i>King-Kok Cheung</i></p><p>Chapter 22: Inspiration Porn, Reclamation Porn: A View of Crip Masculinity and Micro-celebrity <em>T. Tikka and R. Noam Ostrander </em></p><p>Chapter 23: Father Figures and New Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Literature: Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Strategies of Paternal Representation <i>Sara Villamarín-Freire</i></p><p>Chapter 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 <i>Mica Hilson</i></p><p>Chapter 25: Inverting the Gaze: White Male Terror in Film Since Classic Hollywood <i>David Pass</i></p><p>Chapter 26: The Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon’s Masculinity in <i>The Big Bang Theory Jana Fedtke</i></p><p>Chapter 27: Fetishization of Female Masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor <i>Hailey J. Austin</i></p>