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African American men in literature. --- Masculinity --- Masculinity in literature. --- History --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Afro-American men in literature

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Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular poems featured diminutive men paired with enormous women, and amateur scientists anthropomorphized and gendered the "minute bodies" they observed under their fashionable new pocket microscopes. Little men, both real and imagined, embodied the anxieties of a newly bourgeois English culture and were transformed to suit changing concerns about the status of English masculinity in the modern era.The Little Everyman explores this strange trend by tracing the historical trajectory of the supplanting of the premodern court dwarf by a more metaphorical and quintessentially modern "little man" who came to represent in miniature the historical shift in literary production from aristocratic patronage to the bourgeois fantasy of freelance authorship. Armintor's close readings of Pope, Fielding, Swift, and Sterne highlight little recognized aspects of classic works while demonstrating how the little man became an "everyman."

Short men --- Stature, Short --- Masculinity in literature. --- English literature --- Men --- Short people --- Short stature --- Small stature --- Stature, Small --- Stature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte 1700-1800.

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Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both white and non-white, in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. If most of the existing studies on masculinity and race have centered on one specific model of racialized masculinities, Men in Color attempts to provide an introductory perspective on different racialized masculinities simultaneously, including African American, Asian Am...

Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity in motion pictures. --- American literature. --- Motion pictures, American. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Motion pictures --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature

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English drama --- Masculinity in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Theater --- Press and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- United States --- Influence. --- Politics and the press --- Press --- Advertising, Political --- Government and the press --- Journalism --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature

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Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - how Western masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - and how generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender. Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Motion pictures --- Men in motion pictures. --- Masculinity in motion pictures. --- African fiction --- Men in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism