RT Article
T1 Warped Masculinity and the Resistance of Ungovernable Selves in Daniel Black’s Novel The Coming
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 74
IS 3
SP 503
OP 519
A1 LaMothe, Ryan 1955-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1927445477
AB Relying on psychoanalytic, philosophical, and pastoral concepts, this article begins by analyzing and describing the noxious masculinity of slavers in Daniel Black’s 2015 novel The Coming. This foray helps understand the relentlessness of white male brutality and indifference and the slavers’ fear and hatred of human precarity, vulnerability, and dependency. The second part of the article entails understanding the resilience and resistance of enslaved persons in the face of routine and repeated assaults on their bodies, minds, and relationships. There is, in bare life, something—an excess—that cannot be extinguished except through death. This excess can be understood as ungovernable selves and is evident in acts of resistance and resilience to the warped masculinity of the slavers.
K1 Care
K1 Deconstruction
K1 Identity Politics
K1 Impotentiality
K1 Literary Criticism
K1 Literature
K1 Postmodern Literature
K1 Potentiality
K1 Queer Studies
K1 Resistance
K1 Trust
K1 Ungovernable selves
K1 Warped masculinity
DO 10.1007/s11089-024-01186-z