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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, and unsettling provocations.
Table of Contentschapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Introduction: Naming the Dead Father chapter 3 Part One: The Father in Memory. The Business of Mourning chapter 4 Two Fingers of Chat chapter 5 The Culture of My Childhood. Part Two: Fathers in Ethnic Culture. Performative Fathers and the Inessential Macho: Fatherhood in Contemporary Latino/Latina Literature chapter 6 Negations and Subversions of Paternal Authorities in Glissant's Fictional Works (Le Quatrime Sicle, La Case du commandeur, Tout-monde) chapter 7 Holy and Unholy Ghosts: The Legacy of the Father in the Plays of August Wilson. Part Three: Fathers and Daughters. The Legacy of "The Unspeakable Father" in Henry James's The Wings of the Dove chapter 8 Generating Alternative Representations of Fatherhood: Anzia Yezierska and Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Narrative Spaces for Male Others chapter 9 The Daughters of Memory: The Modernist Poet as Father. Part Four: Beyond the Father. Oedipus and the Modernist Aesthetic: Reconceiving the Social in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier chapter 10 Naming the Father: Genealogy, Spectacle, and Jack Nicholson in Going Native chapter 11 Original Chaos Restored: Paternal Fictions in William S. Burroughs chapter 12 Works Cited chapter 13 Index
