Murdering masculinities : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel / Greg Forter.
"Murdering Masculinities offers a provocative new reading of crime fiction that changes the way we think about masculinity, psychoanalytic theory, and the potentials of popular fiction. Greg Forter contends that the American crime novel is a more aesthetically complex and politically progressiv...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Sexual cultures
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Murdering Masculinities offers a provocative new reading of crime fiction that changes the way we think about masculinity, psychoanalytic theory, and the potentials of popular fiction. Greg Forter contends that the American crime novel is a more aesthetically complex and politically progressive form than has generally been assumed. While there are many crime novels that celebrate male power and an invulnerable male self, he focuses on a subtradition that seeks instead to murder masculinity-to encourage male readers and characters alike to embrace desires for self-dissolution that conventional masculinity disavows as feminine." "These books ask men to experience dissolution in disturbingly immediate ways. Unlike many high-cultural texts-which seek aesthetically to redeem the self's ruins-and psychoanalytic texts-which seek to master them theoretically-they make men live forms of male abjection that are a necessary negative prerequisite to feminist transformation." "Forter demonstrates these arguments through sensuously detailed close readings. In the process, he models a new kind of psychoanalytic criticism in which the will to theoretical mastery is tempered by the implicative gestures of popular aesthetic forms. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index. |