Ecomasculinities

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. Fiction



Stefan L. Brandt & Rubén Cenamor







Part I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities







1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary Imagination



Stefan L. Brandt







2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement



Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman







3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siècle Literature



Alessandra Calanchi







Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s







4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s’ America



Rubén Cenamor







5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity’s Rainbow



Victoria Addis







6. Cormac McCarthy’s Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape



Layla Hendow







7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley’s Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres



Teresa Requena







Part III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media







8. 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 Phillips







10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American Masculinity



Evangeline M. Heiliger







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