如何做个男人---22个作家畅想未来 WHAT MAKES A MAN
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作者： Rebecca Walker 著
出 版 社： 上海蓝泉外文图书有限公司
出版时间： 2004-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 252印刷时间： 2004/03/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781573222693包装： 精装内容简介
In this literate essay collection, Walker (Black, White and Jewish) brings together male and female writers to ponder the male figure in its various poses: ill, robust, young, aged, confident, emotionally spent. The result is a book that portrays masculinity as a fluid mosaic, giving added resonance to contributor Caitríona Reed’s claim that "the Navajo have at least forty-nine gender designations." Elsewhere humor writer Bruce Stockler, in "No Means No," uses agile diction to portray the frenetic schedule and social stigma attached to being a stay-at-home dad—for four children, including triplets. And Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, in an essay that uses narrative twists to surprise readers with thoughtful analysis, ambivalently describes Ghana, a country where men link pinkies while chatting in bars because Ghanaian society accepts the display of physical affection between male friends. Almost half of the writers are African American (two others are gay men), and a recurring theme involves the shedding of machismo associated with that culture. Most of the essays are well crafted—an exception being Michael Moore’s hollow rant "The End of Men"—and a number of them chronicle a personal transformation from a limited view of masculinity to one imbued with nuance and so-called femininity. These awakenings are sometimes cloying and may make readers yearn for a defense of the red-blooded man—which they’ll glimpse in the excerpt from Anthony Swofford’s acclaimed Gulf War memoir Jarhead. But overall the anecdotes and insights will keep readers engaged, even if they cast only occasional light on an imagined future.
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目录
Rebecca Walker
Putting Down the Gun
Michael Datcher
The Gift
Martha Southgate
My Girlish Boy
David Coates
This Is My Story
Taj amika Paxton
Loving a One-Armed Man
Bruce Stockler
No Means No (and Other Lies) from SLEEP AT RED LIGHTS
Douglas Rushkoff
Picture Perfect
Jay Ruben Dayrit
Pig Farm
Malidoma Some
Slowly Becoming
from OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT
Peter J. Harris
Me and Isisara Sing Oldies
Anthony Swofford
from JARHEAD I
Kenji Jasper
Confessions of a Pull-Proof Trigger
Caitrlona Reed
Not a Man
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Men Holding Hands
Jarvis Jay Masters
Sanctuary from FINDING FREEDOM
Michael Moore
The End of Men from STUPID WHITE MEN
Jesse Green
Lacking Harriet
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Multi-Tasking Man I
Christian Wiman
The Limit
Ruth Bettelheim
Binuclear Man
Choyin Rangdrol
War Is Obsolete
Howard Zinn
Afterword
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