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Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Editat de Rubén Cenamor, Stefan Brandt Contribuţii de Victoria Addis, Alessa Calanchi, Layla Hendow, Evangeline Heiliger, Bill Phillips, Teresa Requena Pelegrí, Virginia Luzón-Aguado, Martin Hultman
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While there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498567565
ISBN-10: 1498567568
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustrations; 2 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 153 x 217 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Seria Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction

Stefan L. Brandt & Rubén Cenamor



Part I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities



1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary Imagination

Stefan L. Brandt



2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement

Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman



3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siècle Literature

Alessandra Calanchi



Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s



4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s' America

Rubén Cenamor



5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity's Rainbow

Victoria Addis



6. Cormac McCarthy's Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape

Layla Hendow



7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley's Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres

Teresa Requena



Part III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media



8. The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves the Planet (and this Time It is for Real)

Virginia Luzón



9. True Detective: Not Flourishing yet, but Maybe Germinating.

Bill Phillips



10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American Masculinity

Evangeline M. Heiliger



About the Contributors

Recenzii

If American masculinity has been historically grounded in "taming" nature, and environmentalism synonymous with "feminized regulation," then how can men articulate a relationship with nature? We hardly need an eco-masculinist hero-"Eco-Man to the Rescue!"-and these careful readings of recent American fiction show men's fitful efforts to define a relationship as cohabitors on an increasingly fragile planet. Ecomascuinities, carefully constructed, are a necessary part of our survival.
To critically interrogate the historically 'unmarked category' of ecomasculinities is to strive for better understandings of the Western imagination and its ecological malaise. This rich volume highlights the importance of the literary in the urgent endeavour of reformulating relationships between men and the more-than-human. It will inform timely debates in ecocriticism, gender studies and cultural studies.
Ecomasculinities addresses a significant gap in both the masculinities literature and eco-criticism. Informed by ecofeminist critiques of men's exploitation of nature and the links between dominant forms of masculinity and ecological destruction, the editors and contributors draw upon fictional representations of diverse masculinities to envisage new non-exploitative relations between men and nature. In doing so, they provide inspiration for men in the real world to transform dominant masculinities and to foster a feminist-informed ethic of care for the environment and all living beings.