Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-369) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: gender criticism in the age of Trump / Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis -- Part 1. Intimacies The price of freedom: racialized female desire in early America / Anna Mae Duane -- Post-reproductive female sexuality and the early American novel / Marion Rust -- The effeminate man in Nineteenth-Century America / Travis M. Foster -- Rereading Puritan masculinity through Trans Theory / Ivy Schweitzer -- 'Unbounded grief" : black maternal sorrow and the literature of slavery / Shermaine M. Jones -- Rethinking reproductive freedom through transpacific narratives / Yu-Fang Cho -- Slow emergency : life writing, dementia, gender, and care / Rachel Adams -- Part 2. Aggressions. Sexual violence and indigenous women: rereading the archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) / Theresa Strouth Gaul -- Intergenerational memory and the making of indigenous literary kinships / Susan Bernardin -- US women writers, sexual violence, and narrative resistance / Catherine Keyser -- Gender, violence, and accountability in contemporary queer Latina writing / Lourdes Torres -- The literature of racial uplift and white feminist failure / Brigitte Fielder -- Black male studies and contemporary African American writing / Seulghee Lee -- Representations of white masculinity in veteran-authored Iraq war fiction / Hamilton Carroll -- Part 3. New directions. What a doctor should look like: queer femme erasure and the politics of dress in the Nineteenth Century / Christine "Xine" Yao -- Genderqueer: literary and gender experimentation in Twentieth-Century American literature / Jaime Harker -- Fanfiction, transformative works, and feminist resistance in digital culture / Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett -- Vulnerable states: immigration and gender in American literature / Sigrid Anderson -- The Mahjar: Arab women's literary culture in America at the early twentieth century / Elizabeth Claire Saylor -- Disabled women's life writing and the problem with recovery / Clare Mullaney -- Feeling, memory, and peoplehood in contemporary native women's poetry / Mark Rifkin.
Summary:
"Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge themes in American literature and culture
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