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Masculinities in Bellow's Novellas ISSN 1712-8056[Print] Canadian Social Science ISSN 1923-6697[Online] Vol. 10, No. 6, 2014, pp. 138-143 www.cscanada.net DOI:10.3968/5454 www.cscanada.org The Multiple Reconstruction Out of Crisis: Masculinities in Bellow’s Novellas XI Nan[a], [b],* [a]College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, philosophy”, and his “liberalist humanism as well as the China. notion of common people with divinity”, nonetheless, they [b]School of Foreign Languages, QiongZhou University, Sanya, China. *Corresponding author. “rarely pay attention to split subjects, culture positioning and issues of gender” (p.18). Although three waves of Received 15 April 2014; accepted 26 June 2014 feminism improve the development of gender studies, Publish online 31 August 2014 gender studies toward Bellow’s novels are stagnated till now. Feminists point out, deeply influenced by the Jewish Abstract patriarch, Bellow depicts “a male homosocial world”, and Saul Bellow’s novels mainly focus on social lives of his novels are of “stereotypes of misogyny” (Cronin, 2001, contemporary urban American men. Taking his four p.15); Bellow “imposes some limitations on his portrayal novellas covering the second half of the 20th century as of women characters, as we mainly perceive them through an example, this paper aims to reveal in change of social the minds of his male protagonists who often overshadow structure and cultural contexts how masculinity is in crisis them” (Aharoni, 100); his novels are lack of women extrinsically or intrinsically, and how social factors such characters and the only woman character Clara in A Theft as work and marriage assist in fashioning it. Through “bears close resemblance to Bellow’s male protagonists” positive dialogues with social changes and cultural turn, (Cronin, 1995, p.319). Thus men in Bellow’s novels seem Bellow deconstructs the masculinity as well as establishes to be a homosocial unity, as the feminist critic writes, a new democratic gender order and harmonious gender “the Bellow protagonist is unarguably a descendant relations to reconstruct multiple masculinities. of the eighteenth- and nineteenth- century romantic Key words: Saul bellow; Masculinities; individualists and, more recently, the great Victorian male Reconstruction; Novella autobiographers” (Cronin, 2001, p.11). However, scholars of masculinity studies think Xi, N. (2014). The Multiple Reconstruction Out of Crisis: Masculinities masculinity is dynamic and multiple, which relates to in Bellow’s Novellas. Canadian Social Science, 10(6), 138-143. Available difference, subjectivity, power and identity. It is both the from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/view/5454 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/5454 objective reality and the cultural illusion. The origin of masculinity comes from the dichotomy, regarding the representatives of men and women as a series of binary oppositions, which expands the “sexed/biological” INTRODUCTION differences such as differences of “particular reproductive American novelist, winner of Nobel Prize, Saul Bellow organs and genetic markers” to that of “corporeal, (1915-2005) mostly writes his works after World War II, cognitive, emotional, and social capabilities”(Atkinson, whose protagonists are mainly men, covering sociological p.4). Nevertheless, as the deconstruction of meta-narrative themes of contemporary urban American men’s work, in the postmodernist context after WWII, masculinity, economic status, marriage, family, sexuality, love, the cultural discourse closely related to modernity, is not friendship, race and so on. Chinese scholar Qiao Guoqiang only influenced by the emancipation of women, progress writes in the essay American Saul Bellow Studies in of science and technology, commodity fetishism, change the New Century that, “since the 60s of 20th century”, of labor market and multiculturalism, but also itself full critics mainly focus on Bellow’s “thoughts of continental of division, fluidity and uncertainty. Poststructuralists Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture 138 XI Nan (2014). Canadian Social Science, 10(6), 138-143 point out power and resistance can be both repressive and His father obviously knows that Wilhelm has two sons and productive to each other, and the traditional hierarchy of beloved woman besides his wife, yet purposely suspects gender order is replaced by a cyclic new one where the he is a gay. Sociologist Michael Atkinson points out that power of various masculinities and other social elements social factors related to work may make the role set of interact with each other. Moreover, the masculinity masculinity to be ambiguous (p.15). Gays are regarded begins to transit to masculinities and male subjects are as the marginal “other”, the castrated men, and are facing to refashion new masculinities. Therefore, the subordinated and oppressed in the hierarchy of masculinity. conclusions mentioned above by some feminists toward While Adler is retired and old, he still expresses his Bellow’s researches seem to be contradicted to theories antipathy and despise to the marginalized masculinity. of masculinity. Then, what kinds of masculinities does Similarly in A Theft, the heroine Clara also expresses Bellow construct in his novels? Do they happen to her disdain to her unaccomplished husband Velde and vary with the change of social structure? What factors comments on him that: “Velde was big and handsome, will influence the construction? Through the analysis indolent, defiantly incompetent. He worked on the average of Bellow’s four novellas Seize the Day, A Theft, The no longer than six months at any job. By then everybody in Bellarosa Connection, The Actual separately published the organization wanted to kill him” (Bellow, 2001, p.118). in 1956, 1989, 1989 and 1997, this paper will try to find Clara frequently complaints that Velde is incompetent answers for these questions. about his career, never cares about the immense expense of the family and loses much money in stock investing. The only reason why successful woman Clara marries to 1. SOCIAL CHANGES, CULTURAL TURN unsuccessful man Velde is that she wants to get his sperm AND MASCULINITY IN CRISIS to have children. She says that: “He’s the overweening overlord, and for no other reason than sexual performance. Generally speaking, crisis of masculinity is presented in It’s stud power that makes him so confident…but what the following seven aspects: work, marriage, education, really settles everything, according to him, is masculine crime, sexuality, health and procreation. “Work has often bulk” (Bellow, 2001, p.119). Besides, Bellow makes stood as the most fundamental foundation of masculine a strong contrast between Velde’s career and her lover identity” (Edwards, 2006, p.7), and because under the Ithiel’s with Clara’s two oppositional attitudes toward them. postmodernist context identity becomes especially Velde usually stays at home and gets along well with their uncertain and fluid, work is inclined to be viewed as one’s children. He spends so much time reading detective stories identity and income turns to be the standard to judge a on the sofa that Clara once is extremely angry to drop his man’s masculinity. novels out of the window. Velde, a husband lacking of From his first novel The Dangling Man’s protagonist manhood, is of subordinated masculinity, a term named by Joseph, Bellow portrays a lot of men with an unsuccessful scholar R. W. Connell. Connell notices that different groups career losing their ever privilege and predominated of men are in a hierarchy and men lacking of manhood are position in the society and their families. In Seize the Day, often regarded as of being subordinated masculinity. Wilhelm is idle all the day together with his father and a On the contrary, Ithiel is a powerful and successful man group of retired old men after losing his job and expects to and Clara values him as precious as her life. Ithiel lives in earn a fortune by gambling and investing bonds, however, the American capital Washington, frequently attends the he always loses money. Although his father, the retired Congress and goes in and out the Pentagon. He is “to the doctor Adler feels contempt for him and blames him for negotiating table in Geneva, facing the Russians”, and “in his slovenliness, his father still usually mentions that “he the Persian Gulf, with a Japanese whiskey firm looking was their northeastern sales representative” of the Rojax for a South American market”, as well as “with the Italian Corporation (p.35), and “his income is up in the five figures police tracking terrorists” (Bellow, 2001, p.126). Ithiel is somewhere” (p.13) when introduces him to strangers. a man of hegemonic masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity, After Wilhelm loses his job, his masculinity and identity also a term defined by R. W. Connell, “embodied are both in crisis. His father begins to suspect that he takes the currently most honored way of being a man” and drug, is alcohol addicted and of sexual promiscuity. All “required all other men to position themselves in relation these symptoms refer to the corporeal indulgence, which is to it”(2005, p.832). In the novel, both Clara and Velde considered to cause “structural dislocation of masculinity” worship Ithiel and view him as a standard of being a man. (Atkinson, 2011, p.15). Wilhelm resigns because he is not Different from her scornful attitude toward Velde, Clara content with the corporation’s personnel decisions, yet his loses reason and even sometimes goodness in order to get, father thinks he is lying: possess and control Ithiel’s love eternally. Moreover, Bellow also portrays a large number of “Since you have to talk and can’t let it alone, tell the truth. Was there a scandal – a woman? ” Wilhelm fiercely defended himself. accomplished businessmen whose achievements are “No, Dad, there wasn’t any woman. I told you how it was.” “Maybe mainly in the field of service sector. In A Theft, young it was a man, then,” the old man said wickedly.
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