Introduction: Literature and Masculinity / Peter F. Murphy -- I. Fictions of (American) Masculinities: A Historical Overview. 1. The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman / David Leverenz -- II. Crossing Cultures. 2. Barthelme, Freud, and the Killing of Kafka's Father / Peter Schwenger. 3. Gunter Grass's Cat and Mouse and the Phenomenology of Masculinity / Leonard Duroche. 4. Naguib Mahfouz, Men, and the Egyptian Underworld / Miriam Cooke -- III. Crossing Sexualities. 5. Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order / David Radavich. 6. Male Heterosexuality in John Hawkes's The Passion Artist / Peter F. Murphy. 7. Living Degree Zero: Masculinity and the Threat of Desire in the Roman Noir / Christopher Metress. 8. Fighting Words: The Talk of Men at War in The Red Badge of Courage / Alfred Habegger. 9. The Ambiguous Outlaw: John Rechy and Complicitous Homotextuality / Rafael Perez-Torres.

10. The Lack of Gender in Frank O'Hara's Love Poems to Vincent Warren / Jim Elledge -- IV. Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities. 11. Engendering the Imperial Subject: The (De)construction of (Western) Masculinity in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Graham Greene's The Quiet American / Suzanne Kehde. 12. J. R. Ackerley and the Ideal Friend / David Bergman. 13. E. M. Forster at the End / Richavd Dellamora. 14. Richard Rodriguez's Poetics of Manhood / Martin A. Danahay.