Marked Men : : White Masculinity in Crisis / / Sally Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Robinson, Sally,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society-as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind-Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body -- 1. Marking Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American Masculinity -- 2. Pale Males, Dead Poets, and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture Wars -- 3. Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in Crisis -- 4. Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men's Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power -- 5. Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked Men and the Wounds of a Dammed Masculinity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index