title: Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities: Foreword by Michael Kimmel (Modern American Literature)
author:  Josep M. Armengol 
description: Josep M. Armengol represents the best of a new generation of literary critics, steeped in theory, but versed in the classical tools of literary excavation: close reading, textual analysis, and an understanding of genre. His work is theoretically informed rather than theory-driven, and in his skilled hands, Fords work is not reduced to some thin meditation on masculinity but rather takes on added layers of meaning. Whats more, Armengol represents the globalization of gender studies: a Spanish scholar, writing in English, discussing a major American novelist, by situating him within the specificity of American post-Vietnam culture and within specifically gendered discourses of that era. Looking at the work from both outside (as a cultural outsider himself) and inside (through the text itself), Armengol illuminates Fords work in new and profound ways. (Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University; Author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996) and Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008))<br /> Josep M. Armengol intertwines his broad knowledge of literary criticism with a deep scholarly interest in gender theory, producing a text that provides innovative reflection on his own twin passions  literature and masculinity. The interest and originality of this book is the complexity and nuance that constitutes Armengols probing analysis of Fords style, characterization, language and plot, especially his focus on the ways in which the power and privileges attending mens habitual performances and identifications are at all times shadowed by and imbricated with the ever more insecure, fragile nature of contemporary masculinity.  Armengol provides a definitive overview of the depictions of gender relations, male bonding, and sexuality that pervade Fords fiction. (Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, School of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London; Author of Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (1990))
zlib_text: IF I SAY YES
  An Alpha Man, Curvy Woman Romance
  HOPE FORD
  
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