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White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature

White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature

Engles, Tim

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 3030080218
ISBN13: 9783030080211
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 10 2019
Pages: 243
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

White 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.

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