This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics. Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal men as feeling, intersubjective beings, and not as detached masters of master narratives. Modern novels and films suggest that masculine subjectivities originate paradoxically from a combination of copying and negation, surplus and lack, sameness and alterity: among fathers and sons, siblings and others. In this comparative study of more than 30 diverse world narratives, Mooney deftly uses psychoanalytic thought, narrative theories of first- and third-person narrators, and Levinasian and feminist ethics of care, creativity, honor, and proximity. We gain a nuanced picture of diverse postpaternal postgentlemen emerging out of older character structures of the knight and gentleman.
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Mooney, Susan

Springer International Publishing AG

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Switzerland, Switzerland

Cham, Switzerland, 2022

1st ed. 2022, 2022

13, 2022

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Preface 5
Acknowledgments 7
Contents 8
List of Figures 10
Chapter 1: Introduction: Feeling Men—Emotional Masculine Subjectivities, Ethics, and the Postpaternal 12
Gendered Narratives of Emotions and Ethics: The Postpaternal 22
“Structure of Feeling”: Gendered Narratives of Emotions and Ethics 28
A Feminist Ethics for Masculinities 31
Masculinities: Becoming Men, Yet How? 32
Gendered Ethics and Gentlemanly Ambivalence 33
Masculine Narrative Ethics 38
Narrative Connections of Affects and Ethics 40
Chapter Overview 41
Bibliography 53
Part I: Fathers and Sons: Mirroring, Lack, and Masculine Subjectivities 69
Chapter 2: Narrative Ethics of Care: Folding Fathers, Gifts Given, Subjectivity Beyond Mastery 70
Introduction 71
Fathers as Mirrors: Look of Love, Lack, and Contesting the Fantasy of the Self-made Man 76
Fathers Foregrounded: Paternal Subjectivities 80
Subjectivity of the Father and His Non-image: White Noise and The Road 91
Comparison of Subjective Fathers: Image and Non-image 95
The Non-subjective Father Narrative 101
Non-subjective Fathers Serving as Images for Sons 103
Non-subjectivity Plus Non-image of the Father 107
Comparison of Non-subjective Fathers: Death or Relinquishing Patriarchy 114
Lacking Fathers: Looks of Love 118
Bibliography 121
Chapter 3: Ethics of Creation: Copy of the Copy: Sons’ Narratives of Feeling of Selfhood 126
Introduction: Sons: Anxiety, Copies of Lack, and Self-reflection 126
Beyond the Mirror Stage: Desire for the Father as Mirror, Protection, Love, Competition 139
Same Copy: New Narratives of the Sons: Desiring Reflection 147
Filial Difference: Rejection of the Copy: Narratives of Paternal and Maternal Death and Birth of the Son 157
No Copy, No Death: Alternative Mirrors 178
Filial Narratives of Ambivalence 181
Bibliography 191
Part II: The Gentleman Deconstructed 195
Chapter 4: Ethics of Honor: Postgentlemen’s Narratives and Affects of Alterity 196
Introduction 196
The Gentleman, the Nomadic, Anxiety, and Other Affects 200
The Gentleman: Historical Emergence and Narrative Permutations 210
Shell of Heroism: Narratives of Emotion 214
Irish Gentlemen: (Post)Colonial Masculinity 215
Spanish Gamblers: Caballeros in Spain’s Silver Age, Civil War, and Postwar Era 233
Russian Transnational Nomad 246
African American Fighter: Beyond the Self-made Man 253
The Transman and the Nomadic: Into the Mirror 258
Beyond Protest Masculinity 260
Bibliography 262
Chapter 5: Ethics of Proximity: Lack and Dispossession 268
Introduction 269
Closeness in Subjectivities: Men’s Dominance, Abuse of Power, Delayed Empathy or Non-empathy 273
Rewriting Marriage and Adultery Plots: Narrative Displacements 285
Cinematic Proximity: Reordering Looking Relations and the Male Gaze 296
The Look of Lack: Brokeback Mountain and the Castrating Patriarchal Gaze 298
Transmasculine Subjectivity and the Unknowing Male Gaze: Boys Don’t Cry 301
Lacking Looks: Y tu mamá también and the Male Object of Desire 305
Almodóvar’s Touching Gaze of Masculinity: Abrazos rotos 309
Double Lacks and Unknowing Subjectivity: Moonlight 312
Temporal Mirages of Masculine Closeness and Otherness: Spanish Men and Boys of the Past, French Men of the Present and Dystopian World Future: Perturbatory Narratives by Juan Marsé and Michel Houellebecq 316
Bibliography 332
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Masculinities of Feeling at Matrixial Borderspaces 337
Bibliography 345
Index 348

This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics. Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal men as feeling, intersubjective beings, and not as detached masters of master narratives. Modern novels and films suggest that masculine subjectivities originate paradoxically from a combination of copying and negation, surplus and lack, sameness and alterity: among fathers and sons, siblings and others. In this comparative study of more than 30 diverse world narratives, Mooney deftly uses psychoanalytic thought, narrative theories of first- and third-person narrators, and Levinasian and feminist ethics of care, creativity, honor, and proximity. We gain a nuanced picture of diverse postpaternal postgentlemen emerging out of older character structures of the knight and gentleman. Susan Mooney, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of South Florida, USA, is author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (2008)

"Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal men as feeling, intersubjective beings, and not as detached masters of master narratives. Modern novels and films suggest that masculine subjectivities originate paradoxically from a combination of copying and negation, surplus and lack, sameness and alterity: among fathers and sons, siblings and others. In this comparative study of more than 30 diverse world narratives, Mooney deftly uses psychoanalytic thought, narrative theories of first- and third-person narrators, and Levinasian and feminist ethics of care, creativity, honor, and proximity. We gain a nuanced picture of diverse postpaternal postgentlemen emerging out of older character structures of the knight and gentleman."--Page 4 of cover

2022-08-13