Negotiated Masculinities in Contemporary American Fiction
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 6
Abstract
This paper is an exploration of the representation of revised masculinity in texts that represent progressive and conservative ideologies within the United States. John Irving’s representation of masculinity in his 1970s The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules marks a continuation of progressive postwar politics that resists the backlash to feminism in the 1980s. His representation of the male doctor who stands for both the power producedthrough knowledge and science and his masculinity is revised in both novelsrevealing a progressive approach to masculinity. Brian J. Gail’s, more recent, dystopian novel, however, reflects a more heteronormative approach to representing masculinity.Therepresentation of masculinity inChildless (2011) suggests the shift towards conservative politics in the United States in the twenty first century. This conservative representation, however, is disrupted though discursive ironies within structuring the image of the superhuman. Theutilization of modernist revision of technology becomes the source of the revised masculine sovereign in Childless. What is structured to be a threat through dystopiabecomes the revised version of post-modern superhuman who threatens conservativeperceptions of traditional masculinity.
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Hanan Alazaz
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