Border Masculinities

Literary and Visual Representations
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-68049-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

 This volume collates and examines literary and screened representations of what the editors term ‘border masculinities’. It seeks to understand masculine subjectivities, through fiction and screen, within a complex global arena of relationships and fluid movements across multiple boundaries within that arena. It also concerns paradigmatic borders related to class, gender and ethnicities, as well as other theoretical parameters which cut across porous spatial boundaries. This collection contains a range of theoretically informed responses to varying cultural representations of such masculinities in Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, Australasia and Asia. Thematic and conceptual connections between them are discussed in the introductory chapter and such links are also made between chapters.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thakkar, Amit

Harris, Chris

Baker, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Border Masculinities and Borderality.- 2. Working-Class Masculinities in Postsocialist Chinese Television: Mediating (Im)Potency and Reproducing Transnational and Localised Inequalities - Lecturer in Chinese Studies and a member of the Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster, UK.- 3.  Crossing Borders in Two Francophone Texts: Masculinities in Peril - Director of Studies and Bye-Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK.- 4. On the Road to Y Wladfa: Mobility and Masculinities in , and American Interior - .- 5. Liminal Bodies: Rethinking the Borders of Masculinity in J.M. Coetzee´sProfessor of English at the International University of La Rioja, Spain.- 6. Masculinities in Perpetual Movement: Values, Borders, and Contradictions in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy - Gendered Borders/Bordered Genders in Maryse Condé’s Learning Development Tutor at Queen’s University Belfast.- 8. Modern Caciques in Yorkshire and London: Fiona Mozley’s and  .- 9. Men and Glasses: Dances of Identity in Uncommon Spaces - illustrator, design researcher, teacher and science-fiction author based at the University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès, France.- 10. Feminicidal Masculinities: Cultural Contestations of Gender Violence in Ciudad Juárez - Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University.- 11. Reconfiguring Masculinities: Generic Hybridisation, Postfeminist Fatherhood and Queer Readings in Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Greenwich and Part-Time Lecturer in Film at Imperial College London.

Über Autor(innen)

Amit Thakkar is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University in the Department of Languages and Cultures. With Professor Chris Harris (Lancaster University) he has co-edited a special issue (2010) on cultural representations of masculinities and violence in Latin America, as well as the volume (2015).  He also co-edited, with Dr Nick Hodgin (University of Cardiff) (2017).

Chris Harris is a semi-retired Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and former Vice President of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in China. With Dr Amit Thakkar (Lancaster University) he has co-edited a special issue (2010) on cultural representations of masculinities and violence in Latin America, as well as the volume (2015).

Brian Baker is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. He has published several books and articles on cultural representations of masculinities, including 1945-2000 (2006) and (2015).