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" Men on the Edge: Suicide, Masculinity, and Representation in Transnational Popular Culture "
Rajiv Kannan Menon
Young, Robert JC
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803576
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TL48370
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1710812450; 3716575
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Jalalipour, Saeid
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Men on the Edge: Suicide, Masculinity, and Representation in Transnational Popular Culture\ Rajiv Kannan MenonYoung, Robert JC
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New York University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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English
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2015
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212
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Committee members: Gopinath, Gayatri; Parikh, Crystal; Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-95467-8
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Focusing on the transnational relations produced through globalization and militarism among the United States, South Asia, and the Middle East, this dissertation explores how literal, potential, and symbolic acts of masculine suicide challenge dominant categories of race, class, and citizenship. In order to confront these concerns, this dissertation examines what I call the 'identitarian suicide'-the suicide that is rationalized and explained through collective terms of identity, rather than an individualized pathology. Within popular discourses, for example, the visibility of groups like poor, rural farmers in India or Muslim American men is increasingly defined by the perceived risk of suicide among these communities, thus entailing that suicidal potential is central to cultural construction of these forms of identity. However, rather than functioning as an inherent characteristic of certain identity categories, I suggest suicide signals the failures of representation afforded by these classifications, and accordingly points to unheard forms of self-depiction that can potentially challenge dominant structures of power. My particular interest in masculine suicide arises from the ways that globalization and militarism appear as processes enacted in active, male terms, which consequently undergird the need to obscure the subversive potential of non-normative masculinities. Emphasizing the centrality of popular forms of cultural production to these processes and their potential critique, I examine practices of representation in transnational popular culture--particularly film, contemporary fiction, advertising, and television-to locate the making and unmaking of ideal transnational masculinities and their corresponding structures of social power.
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American literature; Ethnic studies; Globalization; Persian language; Migrants; Cultural identity; Males; Self concept; Terrorism; Advertisements; LGBTQ studies; Men; Fiction; Context; Television; Disorders
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Masculinity;Popular culture;Suicide
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Young, Robert JC
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EnglishNew York University
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