Lad Trouble
Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s
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Beschreibung
Men's confessions usually stem from crisis. Through recent confessional literature by Nick Hornby and others, this volume shows: postmodern crises of identity and gender are in charge here.
In the 1990s, the male confessional novel, most prominently represented by Nick Hornby (»High Fidelity«), but also by writers such as Tim Lott (»White City Blue«) and Mike Gayle (»My Legendary Girlfriend«), articulated the structure of feeling of the male generation in their late twenties/early-to-mid-thirties.The book presents the advent of the male confessional novel in a fresh and yet critical light, challenging the feminist claim that the genre should be understood as a backlash against feminism and a relapse into sexism. By applying an eclectic theoretical framework, ranging from Raymond Williams to Anthony Giddens, Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida, the study illustrates why the male confessional novel is too complex a phenomenon to be solely interpreted in terms of retrosexism. It convincingly shows how the multitude of postmodern gender scripts adds to the crisis of identity and to the problematic nature of clearly defined gender relationships.
Autor*in
Andrea Ochsner
Themen in »Lad Trouble«
Contemporary British Novel Contemporary British Novel Popular Culture Popular Culture Masculinity Masculinity Identity Crisis Identity Crisis Gender Trouble Gender Trouble Deconstruction Deconstruction Performativity Performativity Literature
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»Durch seine Umsicht, Kontextualisierung und Fokussierung auf ein vernachlässigtes literarisches Subgenre ist ›Lad Trouble‹ eine [..] empfehlenswerte Lektüre. Die Studie überzeugt in der Herausarbeitung der soziokulturellen Bedingungen für die Genese und Profilierung eines literarischen Phänomens ebenso wie in den einzelnen Textanalysen.«
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Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA), 58/4 (2010), Elahe Haschemi YekaniIASL online.de, 01.03.2011, Dirk Schulz
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»Mit ›Lad Trouble‹ legt Andrea Ochsner eine sehr breit angelegte Studie vor, die die Konstruktion von Maskulinität in der britischen ›male confessional novel‹ der 1990er überzeugend analysiert und intelligent kontextualisiert.«
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