Masculinities and Literary Studies. Intersections and New Directions

As more and more work is being done in the name of the ever-growing field of study of literary representations of masculinities, it seems timely to not only review its development and main contributions to the larger field of masculinity studies, but also to look at its latest advances and new directions. These are precisely the two main aims of Masculinities and Literary Studies, which seeks to explore the conjunction between these two fields while exploring some of the latest developments and new directions resulting from such intersections.
If much of the existing masculinity scholarship has traditionally been grounded in a specific discipline, this volume also seeks to provide an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of the latest interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship - namely, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, ecology, etc. - to the literary analysis, thus crossing the traditional boundary between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in new and profound ways.
Presenting the latest advances in masculinity scholarship, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to gender and masculinity scholars from a wide variety of fields, including sociology and social work, psychology, philosophy, political science, and cultural and literary studies.

I. Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities

The Negro Goes to War, Robert Reid-Pharr

Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: Herman Melville’s "Benito Cereno", Josep M. Armengol

Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American theater, Barbara Ozieblo

II. Transnational Masculinities

Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities, Jeff Hearn

Transnational Legacies and Masculinity Politics in The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Aishih Wehbe

New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women, Marta Bosch 

III. The Ages of Men

"Men Who Cry in Their Sleep": Ageing Male Hysteria in Martin Amis’ London Stories, Lynne Segal

Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Richard Linklater’s

Boyhood and Toni Morrison’s Black Boys, Mar Gallego

Fighting the Monsters Inside: Masculinity, Agency and the Ageing Gay Man in Christopher Bram’s Father of Frankenstein, Sara Martín

IV. Masculinities and Affect

Theorizing Affective Masculinities, Todd W. Reeser 

Men of War: Affect, Embodiment and Western Heroic Masculinity in Dispatches and The Hurt Locker, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz 

V. Eco-Masculinities

The ‘Wild, Wild World’: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination, Stefan Brandt 

Green Intersections: Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis, Teresa Requena

VI. Masculinities and/in Capitalism

Masculinities and Financial Capitalism, Penny Griffin 

Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions, David Leverenz

"To Love What Death Doesn’t Touch": Questioning Capitalist Masculinity in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Mercè Cuenca

VII. Epilogue: Masculinity Studies: New Directions