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Bearers of Risk - Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles (Hardcover)
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Bearers of Risk - Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles (Hardcover)
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The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered
a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking
voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the genre uses
the premise of the marginal to elevate recuperative masculinity
politics and nostalgia for traditional patriarchy. Despite the
scholarly tendency to link marginal genres and marginalized voices,
features of the CanLit infrastructure - including genre criticism
and literary prize culture - are complicit in normalizing hegemonic
masculinity and the Settler colonial project. Bearers of Risk
examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early
twenty-first-century short story cycle as an illustration of
post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics, exposing the tendency
to position White, heteronormative men's viewpoints as objective.
Neta Gordon introduces the civil bearer of risk, a figure who
comprehends the position of men as being marked by or for failure,
and who reasserts masculine authority as civil duty towards
community. This book looks at contemporary experimental short story
cycles, debut cycles by ethnically minoritized and immigrant
writers, and cycles unified by setting, whether suburban, urban, or
rural. Bearers of Risk unsettles popular notions of the inherent
outsider status of the short story cycle while also scrutinizing
expressions of recuperative masculinity politics through which men
assert their right to reclaim the centre.
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