
Re/Presenting Men
Cultural and Literary Constructions of Masculinity in the U.S.
Josep M. Armengol(Author)
AV Akademikerverlag
Published on 14. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
452 pages
978-3-639-45093-4 (ISBN)
Description
Revision with unchanged content. This study attempts to «gender» men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that men, like women, are also gendered beings; that they have undergone specific social, cultural, and historical gendering processes; and that, in contemporary American culture, such gendering processes play a key role in men's lives as well as their literary representations. Crossing the divide between «reality» and «fiction,» then, the book underlines the constant interplay between society and literature, exploring both cultural and literary constructions of masculinity in the U.S. Even though the traditional patriarchal construction of masculinity seems deeply ingrained in the cultural and literary history of the U.S., the book argues that what was culturally constructed might, hopefully, be culturally de-constructed, too, and that American literature plays a fundamental role in this de-construction and re-presentation.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
691 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-639-45093-4 (9783639450934)
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Josep M. Armengol is a postdoctoral fellow and Visiting Professorof SUNY (State University of New York) at Stony Brook. He is theauthor of The Fiction of Man: Re-Visions of Masculinity inRichard Ford's Fiction(in press), editor of Masculinitats per alsegle XXI (CEDIC, 2007), and co-editor of La masculinidad adebate (Icaria,2008).