Ecomasculinities (eBook)

Stefan Brandt is professor at the University of Graz.Rubén Cenamor is PhD candidate and research fellow at the University of Barcelona.

Introduction: Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. FictionStefan L. Brandt & Rubén CenamorPart I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary ImaginationStefan L. Brandt2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men’s MovementPaul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman 3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siècle LiteratureAlessandra Calanchi Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s’ AmericaRubén Cenamor 5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity’s RainbowVictoria Addis6. Cormac McCarthy’s Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscapeLayla Hendow 7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley’s Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres Teresa RequenaPart III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media8. The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves the Planet (and this Time It is for Real)Virginia Luzón 9. True Detective: Not Flourishing yet, but Maybe Germinating.Bill Phillips10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American MasculinityEvangeline M. HeiligerAbout the Contributors