Border Masculinities: Literary and Visual Representations

by Amit Thakkar (Editor), Brian Baker (Editor), Chris Harris (Editor)

Overview

This volume collates and examines literary and screened representations of what the editors term ‘border masculinities’. It seeks to understand masculine subjectivities, through fiction and screen, within a complex global arena of relationships and fluid movements across multiple boundaries within that arena. It also concerns paradigmatic borders related to class, gender and ethnicities, as well as other theoretical parameters which cut across porous spatial boundaries. This collection contains a range of theoretically informed responses to varying cultural representations of such masculinities in Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, Australasia and Asia. Thematic and conceptual connections between them are discussed in the introductory chapter and such links are also made between chapters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031680496
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/09/2024
Edition description:	2024
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amit Thakkar is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University in the Department of Languages and Cultures. With Professor Chris Harris (Lancaster University) he has co-edited a special issue (2010) on cultural representations of masculinities and violence in Latin America, as well as the volume Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures (2015). He also co-edited, with Dr Nick Hodgin (University of Cardiff) Scars and Wounds: Legacies of Trauma on Film (2017).

Chris Harris is a semi-retired Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures and former Vice President of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in China. With Dr Amit Thakkar (Lancaster University) he has co-edited a special issue (2010) on cultural representations of masculinities and violence in Latin America, as well as the volume Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures (2015).

Brian Baker is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. He has published several books and articles on cultural representations of masculinities, including Masculinities in Fiction and Film 1945-2000 (2006) and Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and TV (2015).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Border Masculinities and Borderality.- 2. Working-Class Masculinities in Postsocialist Chinese Television: Mediating (Im)Potency and Reproducing Transnational and Localised Inequalities - How Wee Ng, PhD, Lecturer in Chinese Studies and a member of the Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster, UK.- 3. Crossing Borders in Two Francophone Texts: Masculinities in Peril - Ashwiny Kistnareddy, PhD, Director of Studies and Bye-Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK.- 4. On the Road to Y Wladfa: Mobility and Masculinities in Separado!, Patagonia and American Interior - Brian Baker.- 5. Liminal Bodies: Rethinking the Borders of Masculinity in J.M. Coetzee´s Slow Man - Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska, PhD, Professor of English at the International University of La Rioja, Spain.- 6. Masculinities in Perpetual Movement: Values, Borders, and Contradictions in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy - Chris Harris.- 7. Gendered Borders/Bordered Genders in Maryse Condé’s Les Derniers rois mages - Laura McGinnis, PhD, Learning Development Tutor at Queen’s University Belfast.- 8. Modern Caciques in Yorkshire and London: Fiona Mozley’s Esmet and Hot Stew - Amit Thakkar .- 9. Men and Glasses: Dances of Identity in Uncommon Spaces - Saul Pandelakis, PhD, illustrator, design researcher, teacher and science-fiction author based at the University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès, France.- 10. Feminicidal Masculinities: Cultural Contestations of Gender Violence in Ciudad Juárez - Joey Whitfield, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University.- 11. Reconfiguring Masculinities: Generic Hybridisation, Postfeminist Fatherhood and Queer Readings in Les Misérables - Eleonora Sammartino, PhD, Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Greenwich and Part-Time Lecturer in Film at Imperial College London.