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Fadern och sonen – de förlorade : En studie av maskulinitet och faderskap i Paul Austers City of Glass och The Locked Room / Father and son – the lost ones : A study of hegemonic masculinity and fatherhood in Paul Austers City of Glass and The Locked RoomÅlund Thorgren, Linn January 2021 (has links)
Paul Austers New York Trilogy has long been considered a classic postmodern detective tale. But isn’t there more to the story? In this study I investigate how masculinity and fatherhood is portrayed in the first and the third novel of the trilogy, City of Glass and The Locked Room. Using a theoretical framework including R.W. Connells term hegemonic masculinity, Helena Wahlströms the new father and post-nuclear masculinity, and lived embodiment, as explained by J. Björklund et. al., I discuss how the male characters in the novels struggle with their gender identity and their role as fathers. The results of the study show that the men, portrayed in a time of change and uncertainty about gender roles – New York City during the 1980s – continuously act in relation to the hegemonic masculinity and patriarchal systems, whilst also exploring behaviors and characteristics outside the norm.
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