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NORMAN MAILER IN CONTEXT This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer’sbody ofwork.It examines important liter ary, critical, theoretical, cultural, and historical frameworks for Mailer’swriting,highlightingthewayshisworkreflectstheconcerns of twentieth and twenty first century America. This book traces Mailer’s literary influences; his contributions to a variety of literary genres; his participation in the American political sphere; the philo sophical, religious, and gendered contexts that shape his work; and the iconic American figures he profiled. The book concludes with reflections on Mailer’s literary and cultural legacy, emphasizing his advocacy for literary freedom and the contemporary resonance of hiswork. is Associate Professor of English at Harper College. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction () and Understanding Norman Mailer (), and currently serves as the president of the Norman Mailer Society. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press NORMAN MAILER IN CONTEXT MAGGIE MCKINLEY HarperCollege Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCBBS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,NY,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#–/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents Notes on Contributors page ix A Note on References and Abbreviations xvi Introduction Maggie McKinley Early Influences Raymond M. Vince Mailer and Hemingway Linda Wagner-Martin Friendships and Feuds Matthew S.Hinton New Journalism Jason Mosser Essays and Columns Enid Stubin The Novel Peter Balbert Criticism Phillip Sipiora v Published online by Cambridge University Press vi Contents Film Justin Bozung Modernism Jerry Schuchalter Postmodernism ScottDuguid Marxism and Malaquais DavidAnshen JFK and Political Heroism J. Michael Lennon The Vietnam War Ann Luppi von Mehren Political Conventions RobertFrancisSaxe Left Conservatism Kevin M. Schultz Totalitarianism Erin Mercer The Hipster Raj Chandarlapaty Existentialism and Manichaeism Victor Peppard Technology WalterLewallen Violence Maggie McKinley Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents vii Race DouglasTaylor Judaism MasheyBernstein Masculinity Brad Congdon The Second Wave Feminist Movement Bonnie Culver Sex and Sexuality NicoleDePolo Marilyn Monroe Carl Rollyson Muhammad Ali RonaldK. Fried Picasso Linda Patterson Miller The Criminal Mind: Gary Gilmore and Lee Harvey Oswald Mark Olshaker ’ Literary Activism HeatherBraun Mailer in Translation Jasna Potočnik Topler Letters John Whalen-Bridge Published online by Cambridge University Press viii Contents Mailer Studies in the Twenty-First Century RobertJ. Begiebing Political Resonance GeraldR. Lucas Afterword: Mailer after #MeToo Maggie McKinley Primary Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography Index Published online by Cambridge University Press Notes on Contributors isAssistantProfessorofLiteratureandCulturalStudiesat the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He writes on Norman Mailer, Marxism, film, television, and American literature. He is work- ing on a book about Norman Mailer and politics as well as a work on Netflix and realism. is Professor of English at Trinity University. He has published many essays and reviews on Norman Mailer, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and other modern and contemporary writers. He is the author of D. H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix (CambridgeScholarsPublishing,),D.H.LawrenceandthePhallic Imagination (Palgrave, ), and D. H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm (Mouton, ), and the co-editor of D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration (Cornell University Press, ). . is Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New HampshireUniversityandtheauthorofninebooks(criticism,journal- ism, memoir, and fiction), including two books on Norman Mailer. holds a PhD in American literature. He has written extensively on Norman Mailer, with articles appearing in The Mailer Review, Studies in American Jewish Literature, The San Francisco Review of Books, and the London Jewish Chronicle. He also writes on film, especiallyJewishaspectsofthemedia.Hemaintainedaclosefriendship with Mailer from till the author’s death. is Associate Professor of English at the University of Akron, where she teaches Romantic and Victorian literature, composi- tion,literarytheory,andyoungadultliterature.SheistheauthorofThe Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ) and editor of The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Select Poetry and Prose by Mary E. Coleridge ix Published online by Cambridge University Press x Notes on Contributors (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ). She currently facilitates design thinking workshops in Northeast Ohio. has taught writing and literature at universities in America and Afghanistan for seventeen years. He has published books coveringtheworkofPaulBowles,JackKerouac,WilliamS.Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, Amiri Baraka, and Gary Snyder. He has also published articles on Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, and Mohammed Mrabet. isaninstructoratDalhousieandSaintMary’sUniversity inHalifax,NovaScotia.HismonographLeadingwiththeChin:Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, – (University of Toronto Press, ) was awarded the Robert K. Martin prize from the Canadian Association of American Studies. ’s twenty plus plays have been produced nationwide, including Sniper, an Off–Off Broadway production at Center Stage, New York City. Her one-woman show A Ticket to the Circus, based upon the memoir of the same name by Norris Church Mailer, is scheduled for production in at the Edgemar Center for the Arts, starring Anne Archer and directed by Michelle Danner. She recently retired from Wilkes University, having served for thirty years as an associate professor and the co-founder and graduate creative writer director. In , Dr. Culver was awarded emerita status by the WU Board of Trustees. is Assistant Professor of English at Fisher College in Boston, MA. She is a member of the executive board of the Norman Mailer Society and the Board of Governors for BRAWN (the Boston Rhetoric and Writing Network). She holds a PhD in Editorial Studies from the Editorial Institute at Boston University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, and a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her doctoral dissertation, Norman Mailer’s Book of the Dead, is a critical companion to Ancient Evenings that includes an annotated edition of “The Book of the Gods.” holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Edinburgh, and degrees from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. He has academic interests in postwar American fiction and visual culture, masculinity, and the Black– Jewish dialogue. As well as developing his thesis on Norman Mailer Published online by Cambridge University Press
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