From Big Sticks to Talking Sticks: Family, Work, and Masculinity in Stephen King’s The Shining  

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Davenport, Stephen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 2 no. 3 (Jan. 2000), page 308-329.
Topik: Stephen King; Hemingway; Poe; Bluebeard; family; work; masculinity; wounds; writer
Fulltext: 308MMS23.pdf (76.55KB)

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The article reads Stephen King’s The Shining as a story of anxiety about family, work, and masculinity in twentieth-century America. It is Jack Torrance’s emotional life as a man and the sticks, big and talking, that he can choose from to express in life the answers—in 1977, during the heyday of post-WWII feminism and the birth of the men’s movement—to the basic questions: how and where to be a man? The kinds of work available to Jack—caregiver to his son, caretaker of the hotel, husband-provider, teacher, and the always-suspect occupation of imaginative writer—direct his life as a man and organize the overarching narrative of wounded and wounding masculinity at the heart of this haunted-house story.

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