| New Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity and Kinship Contributor(s): Wahlström Helena (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443825549 ISBN-13: 9781443825542 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $58.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.509 |
| LCCN: 2010551490 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (1.05 lbs) 165 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What do novels such as Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, and Jayne Anne Phillips' MotherKind have in common with films such as Smoke and Mrs Doubtfire? This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that these texts, produced since the 1990s, address with some urgency the notion of new fatherhood in the United States. They offer explorations of the idea that American fatherhood around the turn of the twenty-first century is changing, and they problematize the legitimacy of new fathers and alternative families in a national culture where the old patriarch and the nuclear family still often loom large in the imagination of many Americans. |
