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Doss, Erika. "Imaging the Panthers: Representing Black Power and Masculinity, 1960s–1990s." Prospects 23 (October 1998): 483–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006438.

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When the moviePantherpremiered in American theaters in May 1995, it introduced a whole new generation to the rhetoric and radical politics of the Black Panther Party of a quarter-century earlier. It also sparked fierce debate about Panther fact, Panther fiction, and the power of images. Former leftie David Horowitz, now the head of the neoconservative Center for Popular Culture in Los Angeles, took out an ad inDaily VarietycallingPanthera “two-hour lie.” Damning director Mario Van Peebles for glorifying the positive aspects of the black power movement — the children's breakfasts and sickle cel

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Fusco, Virginia. "Narrative representations of masculinity. The hard werewolf and the androgynous vampire in "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series"." Journal of English Studies 15 (November 28, 2017): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.3190.

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Laurell Hamilton in her “Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series” portrays a large community of monstrous creatures that populate a violent near-future American landscape. A number of critics have already explored the forms in which Anita, the leading heroine, emerges in the 1990s literary scene as a strong figure who challenges traditional narratives of female subordination and alters predictable romantic entanglements with the male protagonists (Crawford 2014; Veldman-Genz 2011; Siegel 2007; Holland-Toll 2004). Moving beyond this approach that centres on Anita, this paper explores the forms in wh

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Mirowska, Paulina. "Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”." Text Matters, no. 7 (October 16, 2017): 368–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2017-0020.

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In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing from the disparate image banks of rock and roll, detective fiction, B-movies, and Wild West adventure shows,” Shepard’s texts “function as a storehouse of images, icons, and idioms that denote American culture and an American sensibility” (Sam Shepard 2). The article addresses Shepard’s work in the 1990s, when - as suggested by Stephen J. Bottoms - the writer’s prime concer

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Miettinen, Mervi. "Men of Steel? Rorschach, Theweleit, and Watchmen's Deconstructed Masculinity." PS: Political Science & Politics 47, no. 01 (2013): 104–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096513001686.

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Watchmen(1987), written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, is a 12-part graphic novel that portrays real-life superheroes in a fictional United States of the 1980s. An alternate universe where ordinary people without superpowers were inspired by superhero comics and took on the crime-fighting in tights in the 1940s, the comic portrays an America vastly different from our reality. Since its publication more than two decades ago, the comic has been the subject of extensive study due to its breathtaking narrative structure as well as its acute deconstruction of the superhero genre its

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Pérez-Gil, María del Mar. "Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other”." Journal of Men’s Studies 27, no. 2 (2018): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826518801531.

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The alpha hero embodies the hegemonic masculinity that has long dominated romance fiction. The portrayal of this male type is, however, problematized when he is an exotic foreigner, as his hyper-heterosexualized masculinity is often associated with the gender backwardness of his country. This article is concerned with popular romance novels set in Spain in the 1970s. It explores how British authors rely on gender and national clichés that construct an essentialized image of Spanish men. The primitive and instinctual masculinity attributed to them reveals these novels’ complicity with the ideol

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LATHAM, PETER. "“Irreversible Torpor”: Entropy in 1970s American Suburban Fiction." Journal of American Studies 54, no. 1 (2018): 131–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818000956.

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Although entropy has been identified as a theme in urban American fiction of the 1960s, it is far more significant in a strand of 1970s suburban fiction, in Joseph Heller'sSomething Happened(1974), John Updike'sRabbit Is Rich (1981), and the stories of Raymond Carver. I argue that in these texts the suburbs function as closed systems, subject to entropy, and that the suburbanite protagonists have a heightened sense of physical and metaphysical entropy, a reflection in part of the prevailing sense of irreversible economic and cultural decline and decay in that decade

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Turner, Will. "Masculinity and the paradox of violence in American fiction, 1950–1975." Journal of Gender Studies 25, no. 2 (2016): 228–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2016.1148860.

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Vanacker, Sabine. "Anxious men: masculinity in American fiction of the mid-twentieth century." Journal of Gender Studies 29, no. 6 (2020): 735–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1796306.

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FERRY, PETER. "The Beard, Masculinity, and Otherness in the Contemporary American Novel." Journal of American Studies 51, no. 1 (2016): 163–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875815002704.

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This article identifies the humble beard as a device used in twenty-first-century American literature to examine the contemporary condition of American masculinity. Drawing on readings from key writers of post-9/11 fiction, such as John Updike, Moshin Hamid, and Don DeLillo, the article calls for the need to move on from the reductive rendering of the beard as an irrefutable representation of Otherness to see the beard as a device used to explore the construction of masculinities in relation to key issues such as racialization, sexuality and the queering of the Other, and nationhood in the glo

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Doroholschi, Claudia Ioana. "Masculinity, Parody and Propaganda in the “Transylvanians” Trilogy." Gender Studies 19, no. 1 (2020): 90–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2021-0006.

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Abstract The article focuses on the successful series of Red Westerns/Easterns produced in Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known as the “Transylvanians” trilogy. The article will look at the films in the specific context of the period, one characterized by the increasingly idiosyncratic evolution of the Romanian communist regime and by growing economic difficulties, and will examine the way in which the films construct models of masculinity at the intersection between three different types of masculine models: those of the American Western (whether adopted or parodied), those of tra

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Callaci, Emily. "Street Textuality: Socialism, Masculinity, and Urban Belonging in Tanzania's Pulp Fiction Publishing Industry, 1975–1985." Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, no. 1 (2017): 183–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417516000578.

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AbstractFrom the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, a network of young urban migrant men created an underground pulp fiction publishing industry in the city of Dar es Salaam. As texts that were produced in the underground economy of a city whose trajectory was increasingly charted outside of formalized planning and investment, these novellas reveal more than their narrative content alone. These texts were active components in the urban social worlds of the young men who produced them. They reveal a mode of urbanism otherwise obscured by narratives of decolonization, in which urban belonging was

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Araüna, Núria, Iolanda Tortajada, and Cilia Margareta Willem. "Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska." Masculinities & Social Change 7, no. 1 (2018): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2018.2749.

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This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell 1990; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine and Glendinning 2005), and use critical studies on men and masculinities to show that the uptaking of caring tasks by men would and is contributing to equality b

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RICO, MONICA. "Sir William Drummond Stewart: Aristocratic Masculinity in the American West." Pacific Historical Review 76, no. 2 (2007): 163–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2007.76.2.163.

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Sir William Drummond Stewart is known mostly as the patron of artist Alfred Jacob Miller, but he is worth examining in his own right for the ways in which his travels,collecting, and fiction reveal how western myths could resonate in contexts other than the familiar project of American nationalism. This article explores how the West served as an imaginative and literal site on which Stewart constructed his masculinity. Yet the more that Stewart tried to stabilize his identity through real and textual encounters with the West, the more this ground shifted under him. For instance, Stewart's nove

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Stimeling, Travis D. "Narrative, vocal staging and masculinity in the ‘Outlaw’ country music of Waylon Jennings." Popular Music 32, no. 3 (2013): 343–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143013000263.

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AbstractEmerging in the early 1970s, the work of Outlaw country artists might be heard as exploring a crisis of masculinity resulting from developments in the women's liberation movement. Building on recent research in recorded sound studies, this essay explores how the vocal staging practices deployed in Outlaw country recordings offer a unique musical exploration of the duality of the outlaw's masculinity. Using case studies drawn from Waylon Jennings' Outlaw-era recordings, this article examines how Jennings, working with co-producers ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement, Chips Moman and Willie Nelson, am

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Peterson, David J. "New West or Old? Men and Masculinity in Recent Fiction by Western American Men." Western American Literature 46, no. 1 (2011): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.2011.0032.

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Wilson, C. P. "Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir." American Literature 76, no. 1 (2004): 196–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-196.

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Martin, Theodore. "War-on-Crime Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 136, no. 2 (2021): 213–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s003081292100002x.

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AbstractThis essay tells the story of how the War on Crime helped remake American crime fiction in the 1960s and 1970s. Amid starkly racialized public anxieties about rising crime rates and urban uprisings, Lyndon B. Johnson officially launched the War on Crime in 1965. The cultural logic of Johnson's crime war infiltrated various kinds of crime writing in the ensuing decade. Tracking the crime war's influence on the police procedurals of Joseph Wambaugh; the Black radical novels of Sam Greenlee, John A. Williams, and John Edgar Wideman; and the vigilante fiction of Donald Goines and Brian Gar

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Johnson, Steven. "Translating the Enemy in the ‘Terp’: Three Representations in Contemporary Afghan War Fiction." Humanities 8, no. 2 (2019): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020063.

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This essay examines the ambivalent relationships between American soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and their unit interpreters in recent fictional works by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Luke Mogelson, and Will Mackin. In these works, the interpreter characters often occupy the liminal space between who is a friend and who is an enemy, serving as an ally to American military units while also reflecting projections of soldiers’ assumptions about the enemy in relation to themselves. Most prominent in encounters with ‘terps’ are the discursive tactics employed intentionally and institutionally as boun

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Carrasco Carrasco, Rocío. "Alien Invasions and Identity Crisis: Steven Spielberg’s The War of the Worlds (2005)." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 29 (November 15, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2016.29.01.

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The idea of national identity as threatened by foreign invasions has been at the centre of many popular Science Fiction (SF) films in the United States of America. In alien invasion films, aggressive colonisers stand for collective anxieties and can be read “as metaphors for a range of perceived threats to humanity, or particular groups, ranging from 1950s communism to the AIDS virus and contemporary ‘illegal aliens’ of human origin” (King and Krzywinska, 2000: 31-2). Such films can effectively tell historical and cultural specificities, including gender concerns. In them, the characters’ sens

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Tam, Hao Jun. "Diasporic South Vietnam." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15, no. 2 (2020): 40–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/vs.2020.15.2.40.

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As Vietnam was caught in wartime narrative austerity from the 1950s to the 1970s, followed by the communist state’s intolerance of dissent, Vietnamese writers in the French and American diaspora have offered literary texts that challenge both Vietnamese discursive stricture and dominant perspectives in France and the United States. This essay studies two novel sequences from the diasporic Vietnamese literary archive: Vietnamese French author Ly Thu Ho’s trilogy and Vietnamese American writer Lan Cao’s pair of historical novels. Taking a historicist approach, the essay reveals complex nationali

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Gindis, David. "On the origins, meaning and influence of Jensen and Meckling’s definition of the firm." Oxford Economic Papers 72, no. 4 (2020): 966–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa012.

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Abstract Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 definition of the firm as a legal fiction which serves as a nexus for contracts between individuals sits well with the Coasean narrative on the firm while at the same time being at odds with it. Available interviews with Jensen shed little light on the origins and meaning of this unusual definition. The article shows how the definition captured, and was a response to, the American socio-political context of the early and mid-1970s, and traces how Jensen and Meckling employed it once they themselves became immersed in the public debate about corporate respons

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Osborne, Catherine R. "From Sputnik to Spaceship Earth: American Catholics and the Space Age." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 25, no. 02 (2015): 218–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2015.25.2.218.

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Abstract This essay considers American Catholics who, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, reflected seriously on the religious significance of technology in general, and space science in particular. American Catholics, while no more immune from the belief that space science would create fundamental changes in human life than their Protestant, Jewish, and secular counterparts, nevertheless sought to understand the Space Age in their own distinctive terms. Catholic discussion of these issues revolved around the contributions of two theologians. From the earliest moments of the Space Age, Tho

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Corber, Robert J. "Romancing Beale Street." James Baldwin Review 5, no. 1 (2019): 178–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.12.

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The author reviews Barry Jenkins’s 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, finding that Jenkins’s lush, painterly, and dreamlike visual style successfully translates Baldwin’s cadenced prose into cinematic language. But in interpreting the novel as the “perfect fusion” of the anger of Baldwin’s essays and the sensuality of his fiction, Jenkins overlooks the novel’s most significant aspect, its gender politics. Baldwin began working on If Beale Street Could Talk shortly after being interviewed by Black Arts poet Nikki Giovanni for the PBS television show, Soul!. Gio

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Capous-Desyllas, Moshoula, and Marina Johnson-Rhodes. "Collecting visual voices: Understanding identity, community, and the meaning of participation within gay rodeos." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (2017): 446–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716679801.

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Rodeos have been an integral part of American cowboy culture since the 1800s, however, it wasn’t until the 1970s when gay rodeos began to form and challenge some of the assumptions about ‘cowboys,’ ‘sexuality,’ and ‘masculinity.’ The purpose of this ethnographic study was to utilize participant-driven photo-elicitation (PDPE) method to understand how individuals who participate in gay rodeos experience their identities and the meanings they attribute to their participation in this queer subculture. The diverse images shared by the participants illustrate their unique identities and the various

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Fuchs, Dieter. "Heinrich Mann's Small town tyrant : the Grammar School Novel as a German prototype of academic fiction." Acta Neophilologica 49, no. 1-2 (2016): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.49.1-2.63-71.

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This article considers the German Grammar School Novel from the first half of the twentieth century an all but forgotten Germanophone prototype of campus fiction. Whereas the Anglo-American campus novel of the 1970s, 80s and 90s features university professors as future-related agents of Western counterculture and free thought, the Grammar School Novel satirizes the German grammar school teacher known as Gymnasialprofessor as a representative of the past-related order of the autocratic German state apparatus from the beginning of the twentieth century. As Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Un

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Fedele, Maddalena, Maria-Jose Masanet, and Rafael Ventura. "Negotiating Love and Gender Stereotypes among Youn People: Prevalence of “Amor Ludens” and Television Preferences Rooted in Hegemonic Masculinity." Masculinities & Social Change 8, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2019.3742.

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This study was carried out in three Iberian-American countries, Colombia, Spain and Venezuela, to identify the stereotypes of love and gender professed among youth and compare them to those they prefer in television fiction series, i.e., those able to influence their identities and values. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the study involved a survey of 485 first-year university students, and a qualitative analysis of the media representations preferred by them. The results showed a preference for "amor ludens", based on enjoyment and the present moment, and a gap between the cognitive an

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Gilarek, Anna. "Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0066-3.

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In patriarchy women are frequently perceived as “the other” and as such they are subject to discrimination and marginalization. The androcentric character of patriarchy inherently confines women to the fringes of society. Undeniably, this was the case in Western culture throughout most of the twentieth century, before the social transformation triggered by the feminist movement enabled women to access spheres previously unavailable to them. Feminist science fiction of the 1970s, like feminism, attempted to challenge the patriarchal status quo in which gender-based discrimination against women

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Troiani, Igea. "Sci-fi Eco-Architecture: science fiction, sustainability and design studio." Architectural Research Quarterly 16, no. 4 (2012): 313–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135513000201.

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In the summer of 2009, while on vacation in Italy, I lay on a deck chair on a beach under the scorching sun reading Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. I had taken Mike Davis's book as holiday reading after becoming interested in attitudes to sustainability as represented in films through supervising the unpublished dissertation ‘The Science and Fiction of Sustainable Living’. The dissertation analysed approaches to the green movement of the 1970s versus those held today. It did this through the study of ecological science fiction movies made during the two periods. A

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Kies, Bridget. "Television's “Mr. Moms”." Feminist Media Histories 4, no. 1 (2018): 142–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.1.142.

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In the 1980s, domestic sitcoms on television proliferated with examples of men who performed domestic labor. In response to the women's movement, these “Mr. Mom” sitcoms liberated women from the domestic sphere and enabled men to claim it as their own. This article examines the potential impact of these series’ foregrounding of men and masculinities. In particular, it examines how the domestication of Mr. Moms highlighted the tensions between “new man” ideology persisting from the 1970s and 1980s Reagan-era machismo. The increasingly progressive attitudes toward women's work exhibited by Mr. M

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Bercuci, Loredana. "Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a Transgressive White-Life Novel." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 1 (2021): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.14.

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"James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a Transgressive White-Life Novel. In the wake of the Second World War, American literature saw the rise of a type of novel that is little known today: the white-life novel. This type of novel is written by black writers but describes white characters acting in a mostly white milieu. While at the time African-American critics praised this new way of writing as a sign of maturity, many have since criticized it for being regressive by pandering to white tastes. This paper sets out to analyze the most famous of these novels, namely James Baldwin’s Giovann

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Caterine, Darryl V. "Heirs through Fear." Nova Religio 18, no. 1 (2013): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.18.1.37.

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Beginning with nineteenth-century Indian curse rhetoric as a national jeremiad, and continuing into the twentieth century through Puritan-derived landscapes in fiction by Howard Philips Lovecraft and Jay Anson, Indian curses and accursed lands stand apart from other paranormal beliefs in the explicit voice they give to Euro-American anxieties over cultural authority. By imagining themselves as living in Indian terrains, accursed though they are, white Americans lay claim to the land, articulating an indigenized myth of national origin. Since the 1970s, neo-charismatic Protestants have taken a

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Sullivan, John L. "Transporting Television in Space and Time: The Export ofDoctor Whoto the United States in the 1970s and 1980s." Journal of British Cinema and Television 12, no. 3 (2015): 342–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2015.0269.

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The revival of the BBC series Doctor Who in 2005 heralded the successful rebirth of a defunct science fiction series that had been cancelled in 1989. While the 2005 incarnation was designed as a slick, high-budget media product with cross-national appeal, the initial series, which was broadcast regularly from 1963 to 1989, was quite different – quirky, low-budget and distinctly British. In fact, the roll-out of Doctor Who on American television screens in the late 1970s was marred by missteps thanks in part to structural differences between the US and British broadcasting systems. This essay e

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Dr. Shabbir Ahmad, Dr. Neelum Almas, and Muhammad Iqbal. "Illness, Care, Love and Today’s American Family: A Comparative Study of the Novels “Miss Janie’s Girls and Sula”." Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (RJSSER) 1, no. 4 (2020): 307–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol1-iss4-2020(307-313).

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This study examines how the novels Miss Janie’s Girls and Sula discussed the family life, illness, fight against pandemics, and need for care during a time of combatting the disease. This study has more importance in the context of the pandemic Covid-19 situation that laid stress on social distancing while the immediate demand of the patient is taking care of by the family members. This study establishes a link between fighting with a deadly disease and feminism, and for that, it brings a comparative analysis of the issues e.g. illness, care, love, and today’s American family from the 1970s to

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MACKINTOSH, JONATHAN D. "Bruce Lee: A visual poetics of postwar Japanese manliness." Modern Asian Studies 48, no. 6 (2013): 1477–518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000437.

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AbstractFist of Fury, starring Bruce Lee, debuted in Japan in 1974. Whilst its critical reception reflected its box-office success, a complex emotional reaction is nevertheless detectable towards the film's unsympathetic portrayal of the Japanese. This paper will explore this reaction and suggest that a post-colonial angst was piqued, one that betrayed fundamental shifts in current racial, erotic, cultural, moral, and historical understandings of Japanese manliness. At one level, the response to Lee is a hermeneutic cue into the manifold ways that this angst was constructed through contesting

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Barret, Kyle. "Bracketting Noir." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 10, no. 2 (2017): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31165/nk.2017.102.501.

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This paper will look at the subversion of tropes within The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973). Leigh Brackett, a veteran of the Hollywood studio system of the 1940s and 1950s, wrote the screenplay and previously had co-written Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1944). Brackett adopted a different approach when working with Altman, maintaining his working practices of over-lapping dialogue and abandonment of traditional three-act structure. Brackett uses this opportunity of the less restrictive production practices of the American New Wave of the 1970s to explore, and deconstruct, the myth of the de

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Cruz, Denise. "Imagining a Transpacific and Feminist Asian American Archive." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 2 (2012): 365–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.2.365.

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A brief moment in karen tei yamashita's recent novel i hotel (2010) resurrects a crucial fragment of asian american literary history. Yamashita's book—part send-up and part recounting of actual events—pays homage to and reimagines the multiple paths that were critical to the late-1960s and 1970s Asian American movement. In a small yet important scene, I Hotel highlights how the development of an Asian American literary canon was entwined with the production of heroic masculinity. Three men drive four hundred miles to visit Dorothy Okada, widow of the author John Okada, on a mission of archival

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Mann, Fraser David. "“The road bare and white”: Hemingway, Europe and the Artifice of Ritualised Space." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 31 (December 15, 2018): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2018.31.02.

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Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) are novels in which imagined space and material place interact, collide and contradict. Despite both texts being set in Europe, Hemingway’s prose reveals American anxieties regarding war and identity. His protagonists are emasculated by war and alienated from the myths that have generated singular ideals of American masculinity. The novels imbue European landscapes with ritual and symbolism that create new imagined landscapes on which to perform and reassert this lost identity. Simultaneously, they are texts that expose

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NISSEN, AXEL. "A Tramp at Home." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60, no. 1 (2005): 57–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2005.60.1.57.

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) contains the materials for a wide-ranging analysis of the different and competing understandings of American manhood in the nineteenth century and the ways in which men might interact with each other and love each other. In order to understand better the sexual and emotional dynamics of the novel, we must understand the other kinds of writings about men alone and together that Twain was responding to. In this essay I place Twain's classic novel in two nineteenth-century discursive contexts that have been obscured in the existing criticism: the

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Zaborowska, Magdalena J., Nicholas F. Radel, Nigel Hatton, and Ernest L. Gibson. "Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others." James Baldwin Review 6, no. 1 (2020): 199–229. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.6.13.

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“Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others” was a session held at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in November 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The papers gathered here show how Baldwin’s writings and life story participate in dialogues with other authors and artists who probe issues of identity and identification, as well as with other types of texts and non-American stories, boldly addressing theoretical and political perspectives different from his own. Nick Radel’s temporal challenge to reading novels on homoerotic male desire asks of us a leap of faith, one that makes i

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Hammer, K. Allison. "Epic Stone Butch." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7, no. 1 (2020): 77–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7914528.

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Abstract Through application of the contemporary term transmasculinity and the more historical stone butch, the author questions the critical tendency to perceive American writer Willa Cather only as lesbian while ignoring or undertheorizing a transgender longing at play in her fiction, short stories, and letters. While biographical evidence must not be approached as simply coterminous with literary production, as literature often exceeds or resists such alignments, Cather's letters in particular suggest a strong identification with her male fictional alliances. Analysis of her letters alongsi

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STILLEY, HARRIET. "Maggie McKinley , Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950–75 (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, $98.99). Pp. 208. isbn 978 1 6289 2481 7." Journal of American Studies 50, no. 4 (2016): 1140–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001122.

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Liao, Ping-Hui. "Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. By June Yip. [Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 356 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-33367-8.]." China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 456–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741005370263.

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June Yip's Envisioning Taiwan considers Taiwan's emergent discourse on a national identity in light of its regionalist or nativist (hsiang-t'u) literary movement and the New Cinema which flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. The book has seven chapters, largely devoted to the work of artists such as Hwang Chun-ming and Hou Hsiao-hsien. It gives a most sensible and nuanced account of the development of post-colonial global consciousness and of the indigenization processes in post-1987, Taiwan when martial law was lifted. It argues that language, literature and cinema have played a vital part in co

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Alonso-Recarte, Claudia. "“They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home." MELUS 46, no. 2 (2021): 87–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab019.

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Abstract Toni Morrison’s fiction has frequently attracted critical attention on account of her strategic use of myth (whether classical or Afrocentric) and symbols. This paper examines the role that horses have, as rhetorical constructs, in strengthening the mythical and symbolic unity of her tenth novel Home (2012). Horses have figured widely in the articulation of African American history and letters, often serving as symbols of the abused slaves upon whose bodies the equipment and instruments of oppression and bondage were violently placed. Within Morrison’s cornucopia of animal imagery, th

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FINCH, LAURA. "The Un-real Deal: Financial Fiction, Fictional Finance, and the Financial Crisis." Journal of American Studies 49, no. 4 (2015): 731–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875815001693.

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The credit crisis of 2007–8 prompted a Manichean discourse that labeled finance the flighty and unreal other of the solidity of the real economy. Almost overnight the “speculative finance” shifted from a descriptive term to an evaluative one, with freewheeling finance singled out as the main cause of the crisis. The fictionality of finance is, of course, a fiction itself. Not only is finance a part of the real economy but since the 1970s it has played an increasingly significant part in it. This essay aligns with recent work in critical finance studies that puts pressure on the idea that finan

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Davis, Erik. "Profane Illuminations: Robert Anton Wilson’s Hedonic Ascesis." Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 6, no. 2 (2021): 209–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451859x-12340113.

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Abstract The writer Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) played a significant intellectual role in the American counterculture in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Drawing from a wide range of discourses, as well as his own occultural fictions and personal experiments in “hedonic engineering,” Wilson presented a pluralistic view of reality that combined a pragmatic skepticism with a creative and esoteric embrace of the “meta-programming” possibilities of altered states of consciousness. In his 1975 Illuminatus! trilogy, written with Robert Shea, Wilson wove anarchist, psychedelic, and occult themes

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McClancy, K. "Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I * Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I * Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives: A Critical Study of Fiction, Films, and Nonfiction Writings." American Literature 83, no. 4 (2011): 875–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437306.

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Jardine, Michael, Graham Parry, Ivan Roots, et al. "Reviews: Northern English: A Social and Cultural History, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household, Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories, the Uses of History in Early Modern England, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660, the Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776, the Social Life of Money in the English Past, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, the Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, Thomas Hardy, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power, Angela Carter: A Literary LifeKatieWales, Northern English: A Social and Cultural History , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xvii + 257, £50.JohnN. King, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xviii+ 351, £60.00JoanThirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760 , London, Hambledon Continuum, 2007, pp. xx + 396, £30CatherineRichardson, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. xii + 235, £50.00DermotCavanagh, StuartHampton-Reeves, and StephenLongstaffe,(eds), Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories , Manchester University Press, 2006. pp. ix + 243, £50.PaulinaKewes (ed.), The Uses of History in Early Modern England , Huntington Library, 2006, pp. ix + 449, £26.95MarcusNevitt, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660 , Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii + 218, £45.GrahamParry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour , Boydell Press, 2006, pp. xi + 207, £45AldenT. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776 , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xxv + 337, £35DeborahValenze, The Social Life of Money in the English Past , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xv + 308£43.JanFergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England , Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. xii + 314. £60.00TilarJ. Mazzeo, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. xiv + 236, £36.ArthurRiss, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 238, £45.SimonDentith, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 245, £48.00.DavidA. Zimmerman, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction , University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 294, $22.50 pb.DanBivona and HenkleRoger B., The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor , Ohio State University Press, 2006, pp. 256, $39.95PhilipWaller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 , Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 1181, £85.ClaireTomalin, Thomas Hardy , Penguin Press, 2007, pp. 512, $35BrianShelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 185, £55NickHubble, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory , Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xi + 250, £45.VictoriaStewart, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s . Palgrave2006, pp. 218, £45.MartinOrkin, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power , Routledge, 2005, x + 220, £18.99.SarahGamble, Angela Carter: A Literary Life , Palgrave2006, pp. viii + 239, £47." Literature & History 17, no. 1 (2008): 78–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.17.1.7.

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Crooks, Juliette. "Recreating Prometheus." M/C Journal 4, no. 4 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1926.

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Prometheus, chained to a rock, having his liver pecked out by a great bird only for the organ to grow back again each night so that the torture may be repeated afresh the next day must be the quintessential image of masculinity in crisis. This paper will consider Promethean myth and the issues it raises regarding 'creation' including: the role of creator, the relationship between creator and created, the usurping of maternal (creative) power by patriarchy and, not least, the offering of an experimental model in which masculine identity can be recreated. I argue that Promethean myth raises sign

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Gibson, Chris. "On the Overland Trail: Sheet Music, Masculinity and Travelling ‘Country’." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.82.

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Introduction One of the ways in which ‘country’ is made to work discursively is in ‘country music’ – defining a genre and sensibility in music production, marketing and consumption. This article seeks to excavate one small niche in the historical geography of country music to explore exactly how discursive antecedents emerged, and crucially, how images associated with ‘country’ surfaced and travelled internationally via one of the new ‘global’ media of the first half of the twentieth century – sheet music. My central arguments are twofold: first, that alongside aural qualities and lyrical cont

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McKinley, Maggie. "Book Review: Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century." Men and Masculinities, August 20, 2020, 1097184X2095251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x20952513.

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