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Author:

Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- author.

Title:

Vulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood / Cynthia Barounis.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Canon (Literature)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Bodies that Leak: American Masculinity and Anti-Prophylactic Citizenship -- "An Inherent Weakness of the Constitution": Jack London's Revolting Men -- "Love or Eugenics?": Faulkner and Fitzgerald's Crip Children -- "Not the Usual Pattern": James Baldwin and the DSM -- Post-AIDS Permeability: Samuel Delany and Anti-Prophylaxis -- Prescribing Pleasure: Asexuality, Debility, and Trans Memoir -- Epilogue: Against Queer Resilience.

Summary:

"This work revisits canonical works of American literature, as well as more recent works, in order to argue that while we tend to understand queerness and disability as posing a crisis to masculinity, for many writers, these categories serve as vital resources for thinking through and constructing American masculinity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1439915067
9781439915066
1439915075
9781439915073

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1059256948

LCCN:

2018046408

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)