Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information NORMAN MAILER IN CONTEXT This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer’s body of work. It examines important liter- ary, critical, theoretical, cultural, and historical frameworks for Mailer’s writing, highlighting the ways his work reflects the concerns 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 his work. is Associate Professor of English at Harper College. 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Hinton New Journalism Jason Mosser Essays and Columns Enid Stubin The Novel Peter Balbert Criticism Phillip Sipiora v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information vi Contents Film Justin Bozung Modernism Jerry Schuchalter Postmodernism Scott Duguid Marxism and Malaquais David Anshen JFK and Political Heroism J. Michael Lennon The Vietnam War Ann Luppi von Mehren Political Conventions Robert Francis Saxe Left Conservatism Kevin M. Schultz Totalitarianism Erin Mercer The Hipster Raj Chandarlapaty Existentialism and Manichaeism Victor Peppard Technology Walter Lewallen Violence Maggie McKinley © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information Contents vii Race Douglas Taylor Judaism Mashey Bernstein Masculinity Brad Congdon The Second Wave Feminist Movement Bonnie Culver Sex and Sexuality Nicole DePolo Marilyn Monroe Carl Rollyson Muhammad Ali Ronald K. Fried Picasso Linda Patterson Miller The Criminal Mind: Gary Gilmore and Lee Harvey Oswald Mark Olshaker ’ Literary Activism Heather Braun Mailer in Translation Jasna Potočnik Topler Letters John Whalen-Bridge © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information viii Contents Mailer Studies in the Twenty-First Century Robert J. Begiebing Political Resonance Gerald R. Lucas Afterword: Mailer after #MeToo Maggie McKinley Primary Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography Index © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information Notes on Contributors is Assistant Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at 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 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ), D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic 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 Hampshire University and the author of nine books (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, especially Jewish aspects of the media. He maintained a close friendship 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, literary theory, and young adult literature. She is the author of The 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47766-6 — Norman Mailer in Context Edited by Maggie McKinley Frontmatter More Information 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 covering the work of Paul Bowles, Jack Kerouac, William S. 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. is an instructor at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His monograph Leading with the Chin: 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