EAN: 9781433110863

RICHARD FORD AND THE FICTION OF MASCULINITIES -...

Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities demonstrates how contemporary U.S. novelist
Richard Ford  winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature  rewrites gender  and in particular
masculinity  from highly subversive and innovative perspectives. Josep M. Armengol analyzes the
construction  as well as the de-construction  of masculinity in all of Ford's major fictional
texts to date  ranging from A Piece of My Heart to The Sportswriter to The Lay of the Land.
Given its simultaneous critique of traditional masculinity and its depiction of alternative
models of being a man  Ford's fiction is shown to be particularly interesting from a men's
studies perspective  which aims not only to undermine patriarchal masculinity but also to look
for new  non-hierarchical  and more egalitarian models of being a man in contemporary U.S.
culture and literature. By framing Ford's contemporary representations of masculinity within a
more general context of American literature  this book reveals how his texts continue along a
trajectory of earlier American fiction while they also re-examine masculinity in new  more
complex ways. Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities contributes to the much-needed
revision of men and masculinities in U. S. literature  and especially Richard Ford's fiction 
where constructions of gender and masculinity remain  paradoxically enough  largely unexplored.

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