Nostalgic modalities of (hyper)masculinity in Jay McInerney The Good Life and Don DeLillo Falling Man

Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK)

Henry Ivry

关键词: Nostalgia;    Masculinity;    9/11;    Jay McInerny;    Don DeLillo;   

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of Durham

【 摘 要 】

In the following paper, I attempt to move away from the political stasis of trauma theory as applied to critical readings of the '9/11 novel'. By analyzing the post-9/11 discursive project of the Bush administration through gendered terms, I look at the ways in which McInerney and DeLillo appropriate this political rhetoric into their own literary representations of masculinity, specifically through recourse to nostalgic formations of hypermasculinity. Furthermore, I examine the ways in which the ome?is imagined as the site of post-9/11 econciliation?

【 授权许可】

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