{"product_id":"a-dangerous-fiction-subverting-hegemonic-masculinity-through-the-novels-of-michael-chabon-and-tom-wolfe-9783034311168","title":"A Dangerous Fiction: Subverting Hegemonic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasculinity is one of the key issues at stake in contemporary writing and gender studies. In their novels, Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe both consistently make masculinity a prominent thematic and ideological concern. This study is the first full length scholarly work to take their work and their treatment of masculinity as its focus. How do these American authors critique the representation of masculinity within popular culture in \u003ci\u003eWonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummerland, A Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e? How do popular images of masculinity function for individual men and the way they experience their masculinities?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Dangerous Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the ways in which Chabon and Wolfe strip masculinity of any illusion of an essential nature and expose it as something highly culturally dependent and explains how these novels suggest to understand masculinity in the contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: A Multiplicity of Selves: The Function of Authorial Celebrity and the Evaluation of the Author in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe – Playing at Being Men: Sport in Wolfe’s \u003ci\u003eA Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e and Chabon’s \u003ci\u003eSummerland – Not So Super-Men: Superheroes and Heroes in Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay and Summerland and Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities \u003c\/i\u003e– The Masculine Mystique: Contextualising Masculinity within Spiritual Discourse in Chabon’s \u003ci\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummerland\u003c\/i\u003e and Wolfe’s \u003ci\u003eA Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e – A Grand Illusion: Hegemonic Masculinity as Escapism in the Novels of Chabon and Wolfe.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043625566551,"sku":"9783034311168","price":59.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034311168.jpg?v=1750958930","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-dangerous-fiction-subverting-hegemonic-masculinity-through-the-novels-of-michael-chabon-and-tom-wolfe-9783034311168","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}