Title
Gendering Men: Re-Visions of Violence as a Test of Manhood in American Literature
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Opens with an overview of gender and masculinity studies in American literature before comparing “An African Story” to Richard Ford’s “Communist” to demonstrate how the conventional concept of masculinity as violence found in Hemingway’s story evolves in the much later Ford story, thus challenging Hemingway’s vision of violence as a test of manhood. Argues that Ford provides alternative nonviolent images of men able to leave their negative pasts in favor of positive futures.
Published in
Atlantis, Revista de la Asociación Espãnola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Volume
29
Issue
2
Date
2007
Pages
75-92
COinS
Citation
Armengol, Josep J. “Gendering Men: Re-Visions of Violence as a Test of Manhood in American Literature.” Atlantis, Revista de la Asociación Espãnola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 29, no. 2 (Dec. 2007): 75-92.