Call for Papers: American Literature Association Conference
Boston, MA May 22-25, 2003
Deadline for abstracts: January 20, 2003
Male Troubles: Problems, Crises, and Contradictions in Masculinity in American
Literature.
While feminism has studied the role of women in American Literature, until
recently there has been no parallel inquiry into literary representations of
masculinity. However, since the 1996 publication of Michael Kimmel’s Manhood
in America: A Cultural History masculinity has become an increasingly urgent
field of inquiry. Recent books such as Paul Gilmore’s The Genuine Article:
Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood and Tom Pendergast’s
Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture 1900-1950,
represent the deepening analysis of masculinity. This panel will continue
this ongoing analysis by focusing on male “troubles” in Twentieth Century
fiction. We start from the premise that masculinity is not simple, but rather
is riven with contradictions and crises. We’ll go on to look at how American
literature represents and tries to solve the problems of being a man and open
a discussion of the particular problems of American masculinity.
Send abstracts to:
Amy Vondrak
Syracuse University
English Department
Syracuse, NY 13244
amvondra@syr.edu
Deadline: January 20, 2003
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