Bearers of risk : writing masculinity in contemporary English-Canadian short story cycles / Neta Gordon.
"The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the premise of the marginal is used to elevate recuperative masculinity politics and nostalgia for traditional patr...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Bearers of risk : |b writing masculinity in contemporary English-Canadian short story cycles / |c Neta Gordon. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Montreal : |b McGill-Queen's University Press, |c [2022] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2022. | |
| 300 | |a viii, 260 pages ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Determining Borders: John Gould's "Conversion" and the Frameworks for Analysis -- Failing and Falling Men: John Gould's kilter: 55 fictions, the Microfiction, and False Heterogeneities -- Tales of Discovery: Formal Constraints and the Desire for Originality in Paul Glennon's The Dodecahedron -- "The Perfect Shade of Visitor": Stephen Marche's Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Literary Parody, and the Unmarked Anthologist -- "The Toughest Kid in Hebrew School": Suburbia and Whitening and David Bezmozgis's Natasha and Other Stories -- Contagion and Containment: Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures and Expert Systems in the Cosmopolis -- New Canadians: Anthony De Sa's Barnacle Love, Ethnic Enclaves, and Civility -- The Wounded White Man: Bodies and/as Machines in Alexander MacLeod's Light Lifting -- In the Background: Labour and Local Economies in Michael Christie's The Beggar's Garden -- "Don't Write Cheques Your Body Can't Cash": D.W. Wilson's Once Your Break a Knuckle, Rurality, and Authenticity. | |
| 520 | |a "The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the premise of the marginal is used to elevate recuperative masculinity politics and nostalgia for traditional patriarchy. Despite the scholarly tendency to link marginal genres and marginalized voices, features of the CanLit infrastructure--including genre criticism and literary prize culture--are complicit in normalizing hegemonic masculinity and the Settler colonial project. Bearers of Risk examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early twenty-first-century short story cycle as an illustration of post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics, exposing the tendency to position White, heteronormative men's viewpoints as objective. Neta Gordon introduces the civil bearer of risk, a figure who comprehends the position of men as being marked by or for failure, and who reasserts masculine authority as civil duty towards community. This book looks at contemporary experimental short story cycles, debut cycles by ethnically minoritized and immigrant writers, and cycles unified by setting, whether suburban, urban, or rural. Bearers of Risk unsettles popular notions of the inherent outsider status of the short story cycle while also scrutinizing expressions of recuperative masculinity politics through which men assert their right to reclaim the centre."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 530 | |a Issued also in electronic format. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Short stories, Canadian |y 21st century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Canadian fiction |y 21st century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Masculinity in literature. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006169. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Masculinity in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01011040. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Short stories, Canadian. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01117131. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635. | |
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