The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture

Introduction

Lydia R. Cooper

Part I: A Literary and Cultural History of American Masculinity

Chapter 1: Studying Masculinities in/through U.S. Literature: Origins, Development, and Future Josep M. Armengol

Chapter 2: Masculinities in Early America Eran Zelnik

Chapter 3: The Marrow of White Supremacy: Problematic White Masculinity in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition Hyoseol Ha

Chapter 4: A Crisis in (Female) Masculinity: My Antonia and the Imaginative Recreation of the Western Frontier Rachel Warner

Chapter 5: Boy, One Day You'll Be a Man: Adolescent Masculinity in Post-War American Culture Angelica De Vido

Chapter 6: Lighting Out for the Territories: Ecomasculinities in U.S. American Literature Stefan L. Brandt

Part II: Current Crises and New Directions

Chapter 7: "Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited" Bryant Keith Alexander

Chapter 8: Heterostalgia: The Logic of Antifeminism Michael Mayne

Chapter 9: Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews in Hindight Erin Spampinato

Chapter 10: Dominance-Based Man Box Culture and White Supremacy Mark Greene

Part III: War, Violence, and American Masculinity

Chapter 11: When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam Ty Hawkins

Chapter 12: The U.S. Army "Warrior" and Military Masculinity: The Army Recruiting Campaigns and Evolving "Warrior" Hyunyoung Moon

Chapter 13: From Toxic Fantasy to Political Satire: Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk's Post-Fight Club Fiction Coco d'Hont

Chapter 14: Frame Thy Fearful Masculinity: Locating a Queer Masculinity in Marvel's The Punisher Reed Puc

Chapter 15: Men Playing Together: New Masculinities, Sport, and Contemporary Fiction Ryan Lackey

Part IV: Geographies of Masculinity

Chapter 16: "To Work Without Stopping": Masculinity and the Midwestern Farm Novel Andy Oler

Chapter 17: Outlaw America: The Legacy of Jesse James and Ron Hansen's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Lydia R. Cooper

Chapter 18: The Counter-Masculine Drive in Contemporary Reimaginations of the American Road-Trip Narrative Nicole Dib

Chapter 19: A Poetics of Refusal: Queer Indigenous Masculinity in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem John Gamber

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 Rosemary Briseno

Part V: Representation in Contemporary Literature, Film, TV, and New Media

Chapter 21: An Empathetic Art: Renwen??Masculinity in Asian American Literature King-Kok Cheung

Chapter 22: Inspiration Porn, Reclamation Porn: A View of Crip Masculinity and Micro-celebrity T. Tikka and R. Noam Ostrander

Chapter 23: Father Figures and New Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Literature: Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Strategies of Paternal Representation Sara Villamarin-Freire

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 Mica Hilson

Chapter 25: Inverting the Gaze: White Male Terror in Film Since Classic Hollywood David Pass

Chapter 26: The Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon's Masculinity in The Big Bang Theory Jana Fedtke

Chapter 27: Fetishization of Female Masculinity in She-Hulk, Big Barda and The Mighty Thor Hailey J. Austin