Josep M Armengol
Biographic Data
| ID | 249567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josep M Armengol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josep M |
| FAMILY NAME | Armengol |
| SIGNATURE | ARMENGOL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Castilla-La Mancha |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3077-925X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Greying of Sex: Ageing Men’s Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Traditionally, (men’s) sexualities have been dissociated from old age, stereotyped as ‘asexual’ or ‘in decline’. They have even been seen as unpalatable, conforming to the ‘dirty old man’ stereotype. Questioning these (mis)representations, this paper focuses on contemporary Spanish novels that challenge such dichotomous images, redefining ageing men’s sexualities as much more complex than has been acknowledged. It thus follows, that if Rafael Chi…
Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature’. This introductory article reviews and defines important concepts and approaches related to Ageing Studies and Gender Studies, and in particular the place ageing masculinities occupies in current ageing and gender debates. It also gives an overview of the articles to be included in the Special Issue
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema
If (older) gay men have recurrently been stereotyped as hypersexual and as sexually voracious, they have also been represented as weak and effeminate, miserable and lonely, and as less manly than their heterosexual counterparts (Goltz, 2014; Freeman, 2010). Quite often, as Goltz reminds us, the two stereotypes intersect, as in classic films such as Death in Venice, Gods and Monsters, or Love and Death on Long Island, to name but a few, where agei…
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Performing Manhood through Animal Killings? Revisions of Hunting as a Performance of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Late Writings
While much of the existing critical work on Ernest Hemingway has represented him as the epitome of macho bravado, and whereas his numerous depictions of animal hunting have been often described as theatrical performances of masculinity, this article aims to question such traditional (mis)conceptions by contrasting his early work Green Hills of Africa ([1935] 2003) to two of his posthumously published texts-namely, An African Story (1986) and Unde…
Past, Present (and Future) of Studies of Literary Masculinities: A Case Study in Intersectionality
This article offers an overview of studies of literary masculinities. After tracing their origins and development within the broader field of masculinity studies, it continues by illustrating the present applications of masculinity studies to literary criticism, ranging from studies of female to 'ethnic' (i.e., both white and non-white) masculinities in literature, among others. This article concludes by showing that, as in the case of masculinit…
Black-White Relations, in Red: Whiteness as Class Privilege in Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks
If much Langston Hughes scholarship has established a division between his early black nationalism and his later 1930s works, which are ostensibly characterized by his abandonment of race in favor of the “raceless” struggle of the working classes, this article revisits existing criticism proving the centrality and interdependence of both race and class throughout Hughes’s career. Borrowing from scholarship on whiteness and class privilege, the es…
Race Relations in Black and White: Visual Impairment as a Racialized and Gendered Metaphor in Ralp Ellison’s Invisible Man and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
While scholarship has increasingly acknowledged Ralph Ellison’s indebtedness to Herman Melville, whose novella “Benito Cereno” (1855) was used as an epigraph to Invisible Man (1952), fewer scholars have discussed their common literary foci on blindness as a racial and gendered visual metaphor. Borrowing from the latest scholarship on whiteness and/as racial dominance, this article revisits “Benito Cereno” to show how Captain Delano’s lack of beli…
Slavery in black and white: The racialisation of (male) slavery in Frederick Douglass's Narrative and/vs. Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article revisits Frederick Douglass’s 1845 slave narrative as illustrative of the ‘birth’ of whiteness as ideology and, in particular, of the subordination of class to race interests in antebellum America. To do so, it compares Douglass’s text to Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), which traces the origins of the slave trade back to the seventeenth century, when American slavery was not fully ‘racialised’ yet. While Morrison focuses on the earli…
Gendering the Great Depression: Rethinking the male body in 1930s American culture and literature
This article explores the cultural and literary representation of male bodies during the Great Depression in the United States. While the mainstream model of American masculinity has traditionally linked men's identity to their breadwinning role, this essay shows how the Great Depression caused millions of American males to feel emasculated by their incapacity to provide for their families. It is argued, therefore, that the Roosevelt administrati…
Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian Masculinities
In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin'sGiovanni's Room
Even though criticism is increasingly challenging the traditional view of James Baldwin’s earlier novels as “whimsical detours,” these texts continue to be read as “white” and, therefore, studied in sexual rather than racial terms, in (white) gay studies rather than African American studies. Moving beyond these assumptions, however, this article is centrally concerned with race-ing James Baldwin’s early fiction, particularly Giovanni’s Room, illu…
Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities: Foreword by Michael Kimmel
Of Friendship: Revisiting Friendships between Men in American Literature
Traditionally, scholarship on men and masculinities has promoted the association of masculinity with emotional repression and containment. Moreover, emotional expressivity by men, when acknowledged, has usually been considered either apolitical or even politically conservative. However, this article attempts to question such traditional (mis)conceptions by exposing not only the existence but also the subversive political potential of men's emotio…
Where are Fathers in American Literature? Re-Visiting Fatherhood in U.S. Literary History
The American literary hero has often been portrayed as a self-willed orphan, an individualistic character who breaks with his origins and begins a new life by himself, alone and unencumbered by the responsibilities of family life. Moreover, American literary fathers, when/if present, tend to be represented as authoritarian and repressive figures. Nevertheless, the aim of this paper will be twofold. On the one hand, it will explore, and re-assess,…
First Spanish National Conference on Men and Masculinities: Men before the Challenge of Equality 8-10 November 2001 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Past, Present (and Future) of Studies of Literary Masculinities: A Case Study in Intersectionality
This article offers an overview of studies of literary masculinities. After tracing their origins and development within the broader field of masculinity studies, it continues by illustrating the present applications of masculinity studies to literary criticism, ranging from studies of female to 'ethnic' (i.e., both white and non-white) masculinities in literature, among others. This article concludes by showing that, as in the case of masculinit…
Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian Masculinities
Slavery in black and white: The racialisation of (male) slavery in Frederick Douglass's Narrative and/vs. Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article revisits Frederick Douglass’s 1845 slave narrative as illustrative of the ‘birth’ of whiteness as ideology and, in particular, of the subordination of class to race interests in antebellum America. To do so, it compares Douglass’s text to Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), which traces the origins of the slave trade back to the seventeenth century, when American slavery was not fully ‘racialised’ yet. While Morrison focuses on the earli…
In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin'sGiovanni's Room
Even though criticism is increasingly challenging the traditional view of James Baldwin’s earlier novels as “whimsical detours,” these texts continue to be read as “white” and, therefore, studied in sexual rather than racial terms, in (white) gay studies rather than African American studies. Moving beyond these assumptions, however, this article is centrally concerned with race-ing James Baldwin’s early fiction, particularly Giovanni’s Room, illu…
Of Friendship: Revisiting Friendships between Men in American Literature
Traditionally, scholarship on men and masculinities has promoted the association of masculinity with emotional repression and containment. Moreover, emotional expressivity by men, when acknowledged, has usually been considered either apolitical or even politically conservative. However, this article attempts to question such traditional (mis)conceptions by exposing not only the existence but also the subversive political potential of men's emotio…
First Spanish National Conference on Men and Masculinities: Men before the Challenge of Equality 8-10 November 2001 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Where are Fathers in American Literature? Re-Visiting Fatherhood in U.S. Literary History
The American literary hero has often been portrayed as a self-willed orphan, an individualistic character who breaks with his origins and begins a new life by himself, alone and unencumbered by the responsibilities of family life. Moreover, American literary fathers, when/if present, tend to be represented as authoritarian and repressive figures. Nevertheless, the aim of this paper will be twofold. On the one hand, it will explore, and re-assess,…
Of Friendship: Revisiting Friendships between Men in American Literature
Traditionally, scholarship on men and masculinities has promoted the association of masculinity with emotional repression and containment. Moreover, emotional expressivity by men, when acknowledged, has usually been considered either apolitical or even politically conservative. However, this article attempts to question such traditional (mis)conceptions by exposing not only the existence but also the subversive political potential of men's emotio…
Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities: Foreword by Michael Kimmel
Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian Masculinities
In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin'sGiovanni's Room
Even though criticism is increasingly challenging the traditional view of James Baldwin’s earlier novels as “whimsical detours,” these texts continue to be read as “white” and, therefore, studied in sexual rather than racial terms, in (white) gay studies rather than African American studies. Moving beyond these assumptions, however, this article is centrally concerned with race-ing James Baldwin’s early fiction, particularly Giovanni’s Room, illu…
Gendering the Great Depression: Rethinking the male body in 1930s American culture and literature
This article explores the cultural and literary representation of male bodies during the Great Depression in the United States. While the mainstream model of American masculinity has traditionally linked men's identity to their breadwinning role, this essay shows how the Great Depression caused millions of American males to feel emasculated by their incapacity to provide for their families. It is argued, therefore, that the Roosevelt administrati…
Race Relations in Black and White: Visual Impairment as a Racialized and Gendered Metaphor in Ralp Ellison’s Invisible Man and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
While scholarship has increasingly acknowledged Ralph Ellison’s indebtedness to Herman Melville, whose novella “Benito Cereno” (1855) was used as an epigraph to Invisible Man (1952), fewer scholars have discussed their common literary foci on blindness as a racial and gendered visual metaphor. Borrowing from the latest scholarship on whiteness and/as racial dominance, this article revisits “Benito Cereno” to show how Captain Delano’s lack of beli…
Slavery in black and white: The racialisation of (male) slavery in Frederick Douglass's Narrative and/vs. Toni Morrison's A Mercy
This article revisits Frederick Douglass’s 1845 slave narrative as illustrative of the ‘birth’ of whiteness as ideology and, in particular, of the subordination of class to race interests in antebellum America. To do so, it compares Douglass’s text to Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), which traces the origins of the slave trade back to the seventeenth century, when American slavery was not fully ‘racialised’ yet. While Morrison focuses on the earli…
Black-White Relations, in Red: Whiteness as Class Privilege in Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks
If much Langston Hughes scholarship has established a division between his early black nationalism and his later 1930s works, which are ostensibly characterized by his abandonment of race in favor of the “raceless” struggle of the working classes, this article revisits existing criticism proving the centrality and interdependence of both race and class throughout Hughes’s career. Borrowing from scholarship on whiteness and class privilege, the es…
Past, Present (and Future) of Studies of Literary Masculinities: A Case Study in Intersectionality
This article offers an overview of studies of literary masculinities. After tracing their origins and development within the broader field of masculinity studies, it continues by illustrating the present applications of masculinity studies to literary criticism, ranging from studies of female to 'ethnic' (i.e., both white and non-white) masculinities in literature, among others. This article concludes by showing that, as in the case of masculinit…
Performing Manhood through Animal Killings? Revisions of Hunting as a Performance of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Late Writings
While much of the existing critical work on Ernest Hemingway has represented him as the epitome of macho bravado, and whereas his numerous depictions of animal hunting have been often described as theatrical performances of masculinity, this article aims to question such traditional (mis)conceptions by contrasting his early work Green Hills of Africa ([1935] 2003) to two of his posthumously published texts-namely, An African Story (1986) and Unde…
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
The Greying of Sex: Ageing Men’s Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Traditionally, (men’s) sexualities have been dissociated from old age, stereotyped as ‘asexual’ or ‘in decline’. They have even been seen as unpalatable, conforming to the ‘dirty old man’ stereotype. Questioning these (mis)representations, this paper focuses on contemporary Spanish novels that challenge such dichotomous images, redefining ageing men’s sexualities as much more complex than has been acknowledged. It thus follows, that if Rafael Chi…
Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature’. This introductory article reviews and defines important concepts and approaches related to Ageing Studies and Gender Studies, and in particular the place ageing masculinities occupies in current ageing and gender debates. It also gives an overview of the articles to be included in the Special Issue
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema
If (older) gay men have recurrently been stereotyped as hypersexual and as sexually voracious, they have also been represented as weak and effeminate, miserable and lonely, and as less manly than their heterosexual counterparts (Goltz, 2014; Freeman, 2010). Quite often, as Goltz reminds us, the two stereotypes intersect, as in classic films such as Death in Venice, Gods and Monsters, or Love and Death on Long Island, to name but a few, where agei…
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works)