Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel
Contemporary American Literature

Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel

Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin

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Publisher Description

This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
July 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
158
Pages
PUBLISHER
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
SELLER
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
SIZE
958
KB

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