American literature has long celebrated the figure of the self-made
man and the idea of establishing selfhood, particularly male
selfhood, in nature. However, during the crisis of masculinity that
swept across America in the middle of the twentieth century, a
generation of writers started exploring a different kind of a man.
This was a figure who was concerned not so much with the loss of
the West or the desire to recover a wilderness, but with how to
live in an ordinary, domesticated continent. Masculinity and Place
in American Literature since 1950 explores the role of place in
negotiating, reinforcing, and subverting articulations of hegemonic
masculinity in the work of four American writers from the latter
part of the 20th century-John Cheever, John Updike, Raymond Carver,
and Richard For. The book argues that American fiction by white
male writers between the 1950s and the present day is compelled by
the troubled and troubling relationship between masculinity and
place. This relationship is deeply embedded in how ideals of
masculinity are predicated upon the experience of the physical
world, and how the symbolic logic of masculinity is continually
subverted by alternative conceptions of dwelling and ecological
consciousness.
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