White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature

Table of Contents

1          Introduction: Making America White Male Again

                        Common White Male Dispositions

                        Forms of White Male Nostalgia

2          Ethnicized White Male Nostalgia: Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

                        White Anglo-Saxonism

                        Empathetic Black Embodiment and White Male Emotional Constipation

                        The Ethnicist Presence

3          Moralizing White Male Nostalgia: Richard Wright's Savage Holiday

                        White Male Histories

                        Purified White Male Bodies

                        The White Male Death Drive

4          Spatialized White Male Nostalgia: Carol Shields's Happenstance

                        Contexts for Happenstance

An Unwittingly White Male Historian

                        Communally Cognizant Reflective Nostalgia

                        Geographical Space and White Male Mobility                      

5          Denying White Male Nostalgia: Don DeLillo's Underworld

                        The Relational Underpinnings of Cold War White Masculinity

                        Reflective Nostalgia and Communal Art

                        White-male Pattern Deafness

                        Masculinized Isolation and Feminized Community

6          Possessive White Male Nostalgia: Louis Begley's About Schmidt

                        Entitled White Masculinity

                        Sovereign WASP Masculinity

                        Nostalgic White World-traveling

                        The White Manchild

                        Repressed White Male Shame

7          Epilogue: Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last and the Futures of Domineering

White Masculinity