Family Stories: Gender and Discourse in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter

Weese, Katherine

doi:10.1353/nar.2002.0007

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“…This premise helps to situate Banks's portrayal of Billy as Vietnam vet simultaneously representative of a more generally fallen American masculinity. 6 The argument that Billy provides an alternative form of fatherhood is more convincingly made in reference to Egoyan's film adaptation (see Weese, 2002), which eliminates inclusion of the episode involving Jessica in Jamaica. In fact, Egoyan eliminates Billy's narrative role, limiting narrative perspective to Mitch for the first half of the movie and to Nichole for the second half, and thereby deprives viewers of the insight into Billy's emotional and psychological life offered to Banks's readers.…”

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Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered Daughters in Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter

Baiada¹

2011

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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This article explores a recurrent theme in postwar American culture, a perceived crisis of manhood/masculinity, through Russell Banks's novel The Sweet Hereafter. On one level, Banks establishes a sense of anxiety and threat with roots in confused and devalued masculine roles. Linked in the narrative to the deaths of multiple children of a small town and especially to fathers' failure to protect their daughters, Banks implies that America's future is imperiled by the degradation of fatherhood. But on a deeper level, the novel suggests that at the core of America's postwar anxiety about families and fathers is not a loss but a lack. The idealized masculine roles whose loss we mourn, Banks tells us, may never really have existed at all.

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“…Boyd quotes Egoyan as saying: "There was no way I could depict the incest in the way it was in the book because it had become a cliché." For analysis of Egoyan's treatment of incest in adaptation, see in addition toBoyd, Gruben (2006),Weese (2002), andMay and Ferri (2002).…”

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Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered Daughters in Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter

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2011

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Family Stories: Gender and Discourse in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter

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Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered Daughters in Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter

Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered Daughters in Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter

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