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Съдържание:
  • Acknowledgements ix; Key to Abbreviations xi; Introduction 1; Chapter One
  • Bodies 21; 1. 'That great swollen belly': The Grotesque Feminine in the Northern Irish Imagination 21; 2. 'A televised account of your own death': The Problem of Gender and Vision in Northern Ireland 33; 3. 'I'm toxic, necrotic and inflamed': The Body Abject in Ripley Bogle 40; 4. 'Laid it open to the bone': The Hermeneutics of the Tortured Body in Resurrection Man 46; Chapter Two
  • Performances 53; 1. 'The Erotic Highstyle': Self Reflexivity and Performativity in Eureka Street and Ripley Bogle 53.
  • 2. 'Some unrelenting protagonist': Postmodern 'Hard Men' in the Novels of Jason Johnson and Eoin McNamee 653. 'The Unpleasantness': Homophobia and the Homoerotic in Northern Irish Fiction 79; 4. The Sins of the Father: Patriarchy, Masculinity and Fatherhood 92; Chapter Three
  • Violence 109; 1. 'Our thoughts and deeds turn to violence': Problematising Male Violence in the Northern Irish Novel 109; 2. 'These men were bred for such work and dispatched to administer territories across the empire': Military Violence in Northern Ireland 121.
  • 3. 'An absence in this story': Masculinity and Victimhood 1274. 'South Belfast's Concerned Classes': The Battle for Hegemonic Masculinity in Transitional Northern Ireland 134; Conclusion 141; Appendices (Interviews on Masculinity with Robert McLiam Wilson, Glenn Patterson and Eoin McNamee) 147; Bibliography 163; Index 179.