Verfasst von:	Gordon, Neta [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Bearers of risk
Titelzusatz:	writing masculinity in contemporary English-Canadian short story cycles
Verf.angabe:	Neta Gordon
Verlagsort:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago
Verlag:	McGill-Queen’s University Press
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	viii, 260 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-251
ISBN:	0-2280-1073-X
	978-0-2280-1166-8
	978-0-2280-1073-9
Abstract:	"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."--
Schlagwörter:	(g)Kanada    / (s)Kurzgeschichte    / (s)Männlichkeit <Motiv>    / (z)Geschichte 2001-2011
	(s)Englisch    / (s)Kurzgeschichte    / (s)MännlichkeitMotiv    / (g)Kanada
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Gordon, Neta, 1971-: Bearers of risk. - Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022
RVK-Notation:	HQ 4068
K10plus-PPN:	1799944050