Journey to the end of the father: battlefield of masculinity in The Mosquito Coast.(Critical essay)

CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

ABSTRACT: Paul Theroux's 1981 novel, The Mosquito Coast, provides a critical analysis of American manhood, describing Allie Fox's pursuit of the "self-made man" in the late 1970s. Narrated by Charlie Fox, Allie's son, the novel presents the mechanism of the masculine subject: it is not so much a pregiven entity as an effect produced by the process of subjectivation, which is based on the body. Allie's exodus to the jungle in Honduras with his family is an attempt to embody the ideal of the archaic American masculine self, whose bodily activities rule over the whole familial ...

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