Of Pit Bulls and Men: Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F15%3A73579094" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/15:73579094 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://babel.revues.org/4076" target="_blank" >https://babel.revues.org/4076</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/babel.4076" target="_blank" >10.4000/babel.4076</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Of Pit Bulls and Men: Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Of Pit Bulls and Men: Tamed Manhood in Harry Crews’s An American Family

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Babel. Littératures plurielles

ISSN

1277-7897

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

no. 31

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1er Semestre 2015

Stát vydavatele periodika

FR - Francouzská republika

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

131-157

Kód UT WoS článku

000422291000007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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