The “Unmanning” Word: Language, Masculinity and Political Correctness in the Work of David Mamet and Philip Roth

Paul MCDONALD

Makale detayları

The “Unmanning” Word: Language, Masculinity and Political Correctness in the Work of David Mamet and Philip Roth

Yazarlar:

Paul MCDONALD

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1998 Issue 7, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1998

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735278

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

The most obvious parallel between the work of the American writers Philip Roth  and David Mamet seems to be the amount of controversy that their texts have  attracted over the years. Both have been accused of obscenity, for instance, and,  more seriously, of misogyny. Roth has been labeled one of the “bad boys of  contemporary American letters”  Jones and Nance 160 , an author who “projects ...  enormous rage and disappointment with womankind” in his work  Allen 96  .  Mamet, meanwhile, has been termed “the playwright of oaths and testosterone”   “David Mamet on Trial at the Court of Feminism” . As these references to  “letters,” “oaths,” “boys” and “testosterone” suggest, both writers share an interest  in the relationship between language and masculinity. This is what I aim to address  in this article. I wish to demonstrate the similarities between Roth and Mamet’s  treatment of this relationship, both in their early writing and in their more recent  material. I focus on two works by each author, an early piece and a later piece:  Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint  1969  and Deception  1990 , and Mamet’s Sexual  Perversity in Chicago  1974  and Oleanna  1992 .

Makale detayları

The “Unmanning” Word: Language, Masculinity and Political Correctness in the Work of David Mamet and Philip Roth

Yazarlar: Paul MCDONALD

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1998 Issue 7, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/1998

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735278

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Paul MCDONALD

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1998 Issue 7, pp.0-0

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1998

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735278

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606