Leading with the Chin : : Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960–1989 /

Leading with the Chin : : Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960–1989 / / Brad Congdon.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Congdon, Brad,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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