Posting the male
masculinities in post-war and contemporary British literature
Gedrukt boek
The essays collected in this bolume examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Graham Swift, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan and Jackie Kay. The contributors seek to capture the current historical moment of 'crisis', at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes visible as a performative gender construct. As the contributors demonstrate, millennial manhood is a gender 'in transition'. Patriarchal strategies of man-making are gradually being replaced by less exclusionary patterns of self-identification inspired by feminism.