Titlebook: White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature; Tim Engles Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

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Introduction: Making America White Male Again, and masculinity studies, and literary white male protagonists. As demonstrated by these novels and by the central slogan in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, “Make America Great Again,” xenophobic, white nationalist appeals have long stoked white male emotions, in part by evoking a mythica

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,Ethnicized White Male Nostalgia: Sloan Wilson’s ,r white masculine feelings and the new rules governing them, this chapter adds analysis of Wilson’s neglected autobiographical writings, demonstrating the sociohistorical influences of Wilson’s white Anglo-Saxon origins, labeled here (following the similar terminology of critical whiteness studies t

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,Spatialized White Male Nostalgia: Carol Shields’s ,o, the resultant novel contrasts masculine and feminine versions of emotion-driven, largely nostalgic constructions of the past. Following Svetlana Boym, these constructions amount to “restorative” and “reflective” nostalgias. Shields also repeatedly depicts Jack evincing what geographers Owen J. Dw

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,Denying White Male Nostalgia: Don DeLillo’s ,can de facto white supremacy and the individualism fetish embodied perhaps most fully by mainstreamed white American masculinity. By depicting the interactions of numerous male, female, and ethnoracially diverse characters, most of whom circle back in ways to the white male protagonist, DeLillo expo

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,Possessive White Male Nostalgia: Louis Begley’s ,h novels often complain that the rise of identity-bound claims among disempowered groups constitutes an unwarranted attack on white men. In Louis Begley’s . (1996), the protagonist’s enactment of proper WASP masculinity, objectifying sexism, and genteel bigotry reflects a steady longing for an earli

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,Epilogue: Margaret Atwood’s , and the Futures of Domineering White Masculinity,United States, she provides a closer analogue in . (2015). Though flawed in its overlooking of racial disparities in today’s criminal justice system, this novel extends our current neoliberal economic order into a dystopia in which dominant white masculine tendencies have resulted in commodified pos

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