Leading with the Chin : : Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960–1989 / / Brad Congdon.
Leading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O’Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important shifts in American masculinity. Using the works of these six authors as case studies, Leading with the...
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Congdon, Brad, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Leading with the Chin : Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960–1989 / Brad Congdon. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©2018 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Crisis of Masculinity and the Problem of Identity -- Part One: Recovering Masculinity in the 1960s -- 1. American Dreams, Gendered Nightmares -- 2. Cooling It with James Baldwin -- Part Two: “The Richness of Life Itself” in the 1970s -- 3. Low-Rent Tragedies of Beset Manhood -- 4. True Men and Queer Spaces in Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers -- Part Three: Cold Warriors of the 1980s -- 5. Sexual Fallout in Tim O’Brien’s The Nuclear Age -- 6. Don DeLillo in the American Kitchen -- Conclusion: How to Be a Man -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Leading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O’Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important shifts in American masculinity. Using the works of these six authors as case studies, Leading with the Chin argues that Esquire permitted writers to confront national fantasies of American masculinity as they were impacted by the rise of neoliberalism, civil rights and gay rights, and the cultural dominance of the professional-managerial class. Applying the methodologies of periodical studies and the theoretical concerns of masculinity studies, this book recontextualizes the prose and fiction of these authors by analyzing them in the material context of the magazine. Relating each author’s articulation of masculinity to the advertisements, editorials, and articles published in each issue, Leading with the Chin shows that Esquire reflected and helped to shape the forces that structured American masculinity in the twentieth century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) American literature 20th century History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh American literature. Esquire. advertising. magazines. manhood. manliness. masculinities. masculinity. material culture. periodicals. popular culture. postmodernism. print culture. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606799 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515959 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487515959 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487515959.jpg |
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