Masculinity And The Paradox Of Violence In American Fiction, 1950-75

An examination of the relationship between violence and masculinity in works by Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth, highlighting the inherent paradox whereby masculinity in this fiction is both asserted and undermined by acts of aggression--

• | Author: Maggie McKinley
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Oct 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1501326473
• | ISBN-13: 9781501326479