Aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction / Josep M. Armengol, editor.
Armengol, Josep M., 1976- editor.
2021
PS366.M37 A35 2021
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Title Aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction / Josep M. Armengol, editor.
ISBN 9783030715960 (electronic bk.)
3030715965 (electronic bk.)
9783030715953
3030715957
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71596-0
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-71596-0 doi
Call Number PS366.M37 A35 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.540935246
Summary Are older men interesting? This volume insists, and demonstrates, that they have been central figures for many intriguing writers of fiction. Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Womens Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, USA Revisiting contemporary US fiction by focusing on cultural representations of aging masculinities not only encourages a reassessment of such texts in terms of dominant cultural beliefs that challenges prevailing perspectives on gender and age, but more importantly offers insights into how the form influences our perceptions by either supporting or subverting preconceived notions of masculinity. Roberta Maierhofer, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria A much-needed and impressive contribution to the fields of age studies and gender studies, both of which have overlooked the study of men and masculinity. Focusing on representations of aging and old men in U.S. fiction, contributors produce a rich array of images and interpretations that challenge the dominant masculinity script and redress the cultural invisibility of older men. Thomas R. Cole, McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas, USA This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that mens aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts. Josep M. Armengol is Professor of U.S. Literature and Gender Studies at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of Masculinities in Black and White: Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature (2014), among others, and is Director of the project No Country for Old Men? Representations of Masculinity and Aging in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.
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Series Global masculinities series.
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Chapter 1. Josep M. Armengol: No Country for Old Men? An Introduction
Part I. GENDERING AGE
Chapter 2. Juan Gonzalez-Echeverria: Harvest Time for John Updikes Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder than Gender
Chapter 3. Sarah Hardy: Geographies of Aging in Jhumpa Lahiris The Third and Final Continent and Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Chapter 4. Teresa Requena: Literary Representations of Aging Masculinities: Bodies and Privilege
Part II. MENS AGING IN POPULAR FICTION
Chapter 5. M. Isabel Santaularia I Capdevila: You are all too old to do anything but get yourselves killed : Age and Masculinity in Stephen Kings It, Dreamcatcher and Doctor Sleep
Chapter 6. Angel Mateos-Aparicio: To Oldie Go : From James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard to Samuel Lord and the Reconstruction of the Aging Male Body in the Final Frontier
Part III. OLDER MEN IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR
Chapter 7. Esther Zaplana: Self-Representation Between Two: Ageing Males, and the Otherness within in Philip Roths Patrimony
Chapter 8. Leonor Acosta-Bustamante: Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Austers Winter Journal
Part IV. AGING BEYOND WHITENESS
Chapter 9. Mar Gallego: Black Masculinities and Aging in Toni Morrisons Novels
Chapter 10. Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias: Aging Men in Contemporary Arab American Literature Written by Women
Part V. QUEERING AGE
Chapter 11. Josep M. Armengol: Sex and Text: Queering Older Mens Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Chapter 12. Ignacio Ramos-Gay & Claudia Alonso-Recarte: On Long-lasting Humanimal Companionships: Gayness, Aging and Disease in Steven Rowleys Lily and the Octopus.

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