Table Of ContentNORMAN 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.
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NORMAN MAILER IN
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MAGGIE MCKINLEY
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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
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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
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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
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Literary Activism
HeatherBraun
Mailer in Translation
Jasna Potočnik Topler
Letters
John Whalen-Bridge
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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
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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
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(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
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