White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature

• Main Author: Engles, Tim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Men.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Men's Studies.

White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men. Examining an eclectic array of literary case studies in light of recent work in critical whiteness and mas...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Making America White Male Again
• 2. Ethnicized White Male Nostalgia: Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
• 3. Moralizing White Male Nostalgia: Richard Wright's Savage Holiday
• 4. Spatialized White Male Nostalgia: Carol Shields's Happenstance
• 5. Denying White Male Nostalgia: Don DeLillo's Underworld
• 6. Possessive White Male Nostalgia: Louis Begley's About Schmidt
• 7. Epilogue: Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last and the Futures of Domineering .