From the Delivered to the Dispatched focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. In this rigorous study, Harriet Stilley shows the various ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between late capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood.
From the Delivered to the Dispatched focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. In this rigorous study, Harriet Stilley shows the various ways post-war American authors engage with the tension between late capitalist consumer culture and traditional national conceptions of American manhood.
Harriet Stilley teaches American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. Harriet's work has been published in a number of American, British and European journals, including the Cormac McCarthy Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the European Journal of American Studies, and the European Journal of American Culture.
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Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction 1 "The land that he saw looked like a paradise. It was not, he knew." Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever's Bullet Park 2 "This-here river don't go nowhere." Fraudulent Frontiers and the Failure of the Adamic Archetype in James Dickey's Deliverance 3 "A violence born of total helplessness." Jane, Dick and the Deterministic Denial of the Black American Male in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 4 "White pussy is nothin but trouble." Death, Desire and the Displacement of the Feminine Body in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God 5 "They were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?" Martial Camouflage, Containment and Castration in Michael Herr's Dispatches Conclusion: "THIS IS NOT AN EXIT" American Masculinity Since 1977 Works Cited Index
Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction 1 "The land that he saw looked like a paradise. It was not, he knew." Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever's Bullet Park 2 "This-here river don't go nowhere." Fraudulent Frontiers and the Failure of the Adamic Archetype in James Dickey's Deliverance 3 "A violence born of total helplessness." Jane, Dick and the Deterministic Denial of the Black American Male in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 4 "White pussy is nothin but trouble." Death, Desire and the Displacement of the Feminine Body in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God 5 "They were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?" Martial Camouflage, Containment and Castration in Michael Herr's Dispatches Conclusion: "THIS IS NOT AN EXIT" American Masculinity Since 1977 Works Cited Index
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