Josep M. Armengol - Global Masculinities: Masculinities in Black and White : Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature EPUB read online book
9781137485601 1137485604 Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin., This project aims to provide different, varied, and sometimes even conflicting perspectives on masculinity and whiteness, starting off from the assumption that rethinking white masculinity as a specific gendered and racialized construct is not the same as essentializing it. Like black masculinity itself, which has been shown to vary throughout different cultural and historical locations, white masculinity has also been shown to be a shifting and often even contradictory construction. Rather than white masculinity, then, this study will be centrally concerned with exploring white masculinities in the plural, showing their intricate, porous, and often ambiguous representations in the fiction of five American authors, black and white, male and female, gay and straight The analysis of white masculinities from such multiple racial, gendered, and sexual angles will contribute greatly, I believe, to the aims and scope of this study, hopefully providing a more complex or at least multifaceted view on the subject.
9781137485601 1137485604 Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin., This project aims to provide different, varied, and sometimes even conflicting perspectives on masculinity and whiteness, starting off from the assumption that rethinking white masculinity as a specific gendered and racialized construct is not the same as essentializing it. Like black masculinity itself, which has been shown to vary throughout different cultural and historical locations, white masculinity has also been shown to be a shifting and often even contradictory construction. Rather than white masculinity, then, this study will be centrally concerned with exploring white masculinities in the plural, showing their intricate, porous, and often ambiguous representations in the fiction of five American authors, black and white, male and female, gay and straight The analysis of white masculinities from such multiple racial, gendered, and sexual angles will contribute greatly, I believe, to the aims and scope of this study, hopefully providing a more complex or at least multifaceted view on the subject.