White Men on the Edge: Rewriting the Borderlands in Lone Star  

Oleh:

Somerson, Wendy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 6 no. 3 (Jan. 2004), page 215-239.
Topik: borderlands; gender; feminism; Lone Star; masculinity; multiculturalism; transnationalism; whiteness; President Clinton; liberalism
Fulltext: 215MMS63.pdf (138.21KB)

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This article argues that in the era of transnational capitalism, someU.S. narratives, generally produced by and about white men, reflect contemporary anxieties about the position of white masculinity, which alters in response to changes in sociopolitical and economic conditions. Responding to the potential displacement of white masculinity by feminism and multiculturalism, these narratives incorporate racial difference into the white nuclear family to reposition white masculinity as a borderland state of being. Once white masculinity is positioned on the borderlands, its importance can be reaffirmed in the era of globalization. The author begins with an analysis of racialized representations of former president Bill Clinton, who functioned as a figurehead of masculinity for the nation. She then considers John Sayles’s film Lone Star, which marks out a positive subject position for the current white male subject by rewriting the racial position of the white male historical subject.

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