Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles

How Whiteness and normative masculinity are strategically centred via a marginal genre.

Bearers of Risk examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early twenty-first-century short story cycle as an illustration of post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics. Neta Gordon unsettles scholarly positions on the inherent outsider status of the short story cycle and exposes the strategic unmarking of White, heteronormative men.