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OverviewWhite Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men. Examining an eclectic array of literary case studies in light of recent work in critical whiteness and masculinity studies, history, geography, philosophy and theology, Tim Engles delineates five preliminary forms of white male nostalgia—as dramatized in novels by Sloan Wilson, Richard Wright, Carol Shields, Don DeLillo, Louis Begley and Margaret Atwood—demonstrating how literary fiction can help us understand the inner workings of deluded dominance. These authors write from identities outside the defensive domain of normalized white masculinity, demonstrating via extended interior dramas that although nostalgia is primarily thought of as an emotion felt by individuals, it also works to shore up entrenched collective power. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tim EnglesPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9783319904597ISBN 10: 3319904590 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 30 July 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1 Introduction: Making America White Male Again Common White Male Dispositions Forms of White Male Nostalgia 2 Ethnicized White Male Nostalgia: Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit White Anglo-Saxonism Resurgent White Anglo-Saxonism Empathetic Black Embodiment and White Male Emotional Constipation The Ethnicist Presence Pseudo-feudal Nostalgia 3 Moralizing White Male Nostalgia: Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday White Male Histories Purified White Male Bodies The White Male Death Drive 4 Spatialized White Male Nostalgia: Carol Shields’s Happenstance Contexts for Happenstance An Unwittingly White Male Historian Communally Cognizant Reflective Nostalgia Dehistoricized Land Geographical Space and White Male Mobility 5 Denying White Male Nostalgia: Don DeLillo’s Underworld The Relational Underpinnings of Cold War White Masculinity Reflective Nostalgia and Communal Art White-male Pattern Deafness Masculinized Isolation and Feminized Community 6 Possessive White Male Nostalgia: Louis Begley’s About Schmidt Entitled White Masculinity Sovereign WASP Masculinity Nostalgic White World-traveling The White Manchild Repressed White Male Shame 7 Epilogue: Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and the Futures of Domineering White MasculinityReviewsAuthor InformationTim Engles is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, USA, specializing in multicultural literature and critical whiteness studies. He has co-edited Critical Essays on Don DeLillo (2000) and Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s White Noise (2006) and his recent publications address the work of Gloria Naylor, Tim O’Brien and Walter Dean Myers, as well as systemic racism in the criminal justice system and racialized social media slacktivism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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