Boys don't cry?
Subtitle: rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S.
By: edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis.
Contributors: Shamir, Milette.; Travis, Jennifer.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Men in literature; Men -- United States -- Attitudes; Masculinity in literature; Emotions in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Men -- Psychology
Description: We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by addressing the history and politics of emotion in prevailing narratives about masculinity. How did the story of the emotionally stifled U.S. male come into being? What are its political stakes?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Contributors; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis; title: 1 What Feels an American?; title: Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Man' World; title: Evan Carton; title: 2 Loving with a Vengeance; title: Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis ofMasculinity in the Early Nation; title: Elizabeth Barnes; title: 3 "The Manliest Relations to Men"; title: Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing; title: Milette Shamir; title: 4 Manly Tears; title: Men' Elegies for Children in Nineteenth-Century America; title: Eric Haralson; title: 5 How to be a (Sentimental) Race Man:; title: Mourning and Passing in W E. B. Du Boiss The Souls of Black Folk; title: Ryan Schneider; title: 6 The Law of the Heart; title: Emotional Injury and Its Fictions; title: Jennifer Travis; title: 7 "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit"; title: Hemingways Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint; title: Thomas Strychacz; title: 8 Road Work; title: Rereading Kerouacs Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood; title: Stephen Davenport; title: 9 Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama; title: Tom Lutz; title: 10 Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds; title: Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction ofMasculinity in the I97os; title: Sally Robinson; title: 11 The Politics of Feeling; title: Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Capital Mall; title: Judith Newton; title: Bibliography; title: Index.