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Exemplified by President Donald J. Trump's slogan "Make American Great Again," white masculinity has become increasingly organized around melancholic attachments to an imagined past when white men were still atop the social hierarchy. How and why are white men increasingly identifying as victims of social, economic, and political change? Casey Ryan Kelly's Apocalypse Man seeks to answer this question by examining textual and performative examples of white male rhetoric-as found among online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and "doomsday preppers," gender-motivated mass shooters, gun activists, and political demagogues. Using sources ranging from reality television and Reddit manifestos to gun culture and political rallies, Kelly ultimately argues that death, victimhood, and fatalism have come to underwrite the constitution of contemporary white masculinity.

ISBN-13: 9780814255780

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Publication Date: 04-07-2020

Pages: 190

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Casey Ryan Kelly is Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the author of Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, and the recipient of numerous awards from the National Communication Association.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction The Apocalyptic Male 1

Chapter 1 Doomsday Preppers: The Man-pocalypse 29

Chapter 2 The Red Pill: The New Men's Rights Rhetoric 59

Chapter 3 Incel Rebellion: Fascism and Male Autarky 83

Chapter 4 Sun's Out, Guns Out: Open Carry and the White Male Body 105

Chapter 5 Midnight in America: Donald J. Trump and Political Sadomasochism 131

Conclusion Return to Charlottesville 153

Notes 165

Bibliography 179

Index 197