Libro Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood De Casey Ryan Kelly

portada Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

The Ohio State University Press

Autor

Casey Ryan Kelly

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

190

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780814214329

N° edición

Categorías

Estudios de comunicación

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Casey Ryan Kelly (Autor) · The Ohio State University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood"

Exemplified by President Donald J. Trump's slogan "Make American Great Again," white masculinity has become increasingly organized around melancholic attachments to an imagined past when white men were still atop the social hierarchy. How and why are white men increasingly identifying as victims of social, economic, and political change? Casey Ryan Kelly's Apocalypse Man seeks to answer this question by examining textual and performative examples of white male rhetoric-as found among online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and "doomsday preppers," gender-motivated mass shooters, gun activists, and political demagogues. Using sources ranging from reality television and Reddit manifestos to gun culture and political rallies, Kelly ultimately argues that death, victimhood, and fatalism have come to underwrite the constitution of contemporary white masculinity.