... suspect constructions of masculinity. crime fiction Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Frye Katie Berry hard boiled crime fiction Macdonald Ross pseudonym of Kenneth Millar Marrs Suzanne Mystery Writers of America MWA New York Times Book Review pulp fiction Raven Award Sipper Ralph Southern Review...

... to the racialized fears stoked by media in the Obama era. In the persons of Negan and The Colonel, both The Walking Dead and War for the Planet of the Apes develop characters emblematic of the kind of fascist masculinity and right-wing extremism voiced by Trump and embodied...

... in that they live in double time which means they can be ratchet, ghetto, caring, soft, and hard all at once. Similarly, the chapter concludes by showing how Black men work through the contradictions of masculinity through queer performativity. Black men’s desire to make bodies (cars) beautiful and changing...

... the conflation thereof) among the protagonists of the DIY superhero genre, the chapter examines a problematic linkage to violence and toxic masculinity as these films ground the tropes of the superhero in real world contexts. In doing so, the chapter also delineates between this DIY subgenre of superhero films...

...In this chapter, Elizabeth Ho considers how whiteness, masculinity, and Eurasian identity inform each other in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices trilogy. The essay argues that, because it does not provide a thoughtful “ethics of appropriation” of past and present systems of oppression, the series...

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... of his understudied 1960 novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement, showing how, in it, the intersection of class, race, and, above all, sexuality raises issues that interfere with the heroic masculinity characteristic of the heterosexual nationalism purveyed by the more consecrated Windrush...

..., and modernization, the next generation of American authors to write heroic fiction updated earlier heroic archetypes as creative and personal responses to industrial modernity. Generally speaking, their fiction involved imaginative withdrawals from modern society that affirmed white middle-class masculinity...

...This chapter analyzes Larry Brown’s debut collection of short stories, Facing the Music, and its female characters. It argues that many of the women in the stories are victims of both the patriarchy in general and concepts of Southern masculinity in particular. The chapter...

...’s June 1957 issue included “Divorce in Naples”—two stories that are not just any old Faulkner stories when considering issues of masculine identity. Magazine editors made the curious decision to reprint these stories, ripe with overtones of sexual ambivalence, alongside more explicitly heterosexual...

...In this chapter, Christopher Kilgore analyzes venomous and abusive masculinities as drawn-out temporal trauma in some of Gaiman and McKean's darker works, Violent Cases and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch. The chapter goes on to argue...

...This chapter examines the crisis of masculinity as represented in Hollywood and on film. Evolving representations of masculinity were framed by the psychoanalytic turn in Hollywood, the objectification and eroticization of male bodies, the dominance of method acting, and questions about the nature...

... be used to examine the performance of gender in other picturebooks and horror texts for children and young adults that utilize horror elements to focus explicitly on the masculine experience of American culture and identity formation. Allan Cherie gender gothic Halberstam Jack Judith horror...

..., and transformed masculinity offered by the South Dakota frontier and the western genre seem available to the black man only through erasure—only if he assimilates thoroughly and abandons any sense of responsibility to others of his race. Micheaux’s protagonist Baptiste is caught between the conflicting goals...

...This chapter explores the representations of black masculinity in two novels, Percival Everett’s Erasure and Adam Mansbach’s Angry Black White Boy. By reading these particular texts side by side, this chapter demonstrates that even in the absence of signifiers...

...This chapter further develops the previous chapter’s focus on gender by turning its attention to depictions of men and masculinity in Left Behind, and the ramifications of these representations for contemporary evangelical culture. It notes that, in contrast to the relatively progressive positions...

... there is an equally profound critique of hegemonic forms of masculinity, but it can only be accessed by understanding the ways that systems in a state of disequilibrium often resort to drastic methods to restore order. What both texts share is the sense that for utopian spaces to persist, they must enact figurations...

... of the harmful effects of the subservience to a European-imported ideology of patriarchal supremacy by dealing with the politics of representing normative masculinity. Morrison unravels the impositions of white patriarchy in her depiction of the white male characters that populate her novel, who either fail...

...Drawing on recent work in affect studies and on analyses of white masculinity in European American literature and other modes of cultural production, this essay explicates the depiction in Louis Begley’s novel About Schmidt (1996) of a contemporary white male psyche in crisis...

...The chapter examines the HBO show Watchmen, paying close attention to how it depicts and critiques notions of whiteness and white masculinity in America. It argues that white masculinity can be discussed in relation to the rise of the alt-right, white supremacy, and white...