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Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture - Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies (Paperback)
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Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture - Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies (Paperback)
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Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a
transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and
mutually influential relationship between different forms of
national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the
construction of masculinity in each country. The contributors take
up issues related to how certain kinds of nationally specific
masculine identifications are produced, how these change over time,
and how literature and other forms of cultural representation
eventually question and deconstruct their own myths of masculinity.
Focusing on the period from the end of World War II to the 1980s,
the essays each take up a topic with particular cultural and
historical resonance, whether it is hypermasculinity in early cold
war films; the articulation of male anxieties in plays by Arthur
Miller, David Mamet and Sam Shepard; the evolution of photographic
depictions of masculinity from the 1960s to the 1980s; or the
representations of masculinity in the fiction of American and
British writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Richard Yates, John
Braine, Martin Amis, Evan S. Connell, James Dickey, John Berger,
Philip Roth, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston. The editors and
contributors make a case for the importance of understanding the
larger context for the emergence of more pluralistic, culturally
differentiated and ultimately transnational masculinities, arguing
that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and
commonality simultaneously.
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