Of Pit Bulls and Men: Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/babel.4076" target="_blank" >10.4000/babel.4076</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Of Pit Bulls and Men: Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family
Original language description
The article analyzes the decline and reinstatement of southern manhood through the main male protagonist of Harry Crews’s novella An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings (2006), his last published book of fiction. Drawing on several sources investigating manhood in general and southern manhood, with its frequently stereotyped inclination to violence and brutality, in particular, the article focuses on the possibility, suggested by Crews, of the re-education of an ill-mannered wife-batterer. Against the background of Sigmund Freud’s theory of masochism and selected texts by representatives of various streams of the men’s movement, who consider men to be weak and increasingly feminized victims searching both for their lost manhood and for the release of their suppressed emotions and sensitivities, the article recognizes three stages of the man’s reformation: infantilization, feminization, and re-masculinization. In the novella, Crews compares the ordeal of his protagonist with that of pit bulls, marginalized for their ferocity, but under the right circumstances able to behave as faithful pet animals.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Babel. Littératures plurielles
ISSN
1277-7897
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
no. 31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1er Semestre 2015
Country of publishing house
FR - FRANCE
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
131-157
UT code for WoS article
000422291000007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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