Mailer Expunged; Mailer Restored

Authors

  • Robert J. Begiebing Southern New Hampshire University Author

Keywords:

Maggie McKinley, Understanding Norman Mailer, literary reputation, academic canon, censorship

Abstract

Robert J. Begiebing reviews Maggie McKinley’s Understanding Norman Mailer (University of South Carolina Press), a volume in the Understanding Contemporary American Literature series that assesses Mailer’s sixty-year career in under 120 pages of text. Begiebing praises McKinley’s concise, largely jargon-free survey of Mailer’s themes, her reading of his work as an evolving process rather than a set of finished artifacts, and her lively chapter on war, women, politics, and film, and he presents the book as an antidote to Mailer’s exclusion from academic anthologies.

Author Biography

  • Robert J. Begiebing, Southern New Hampshire University

    Robert J. Begiebing is Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University and the author of nine books (including criticism, fiction, and nonfiction) and many articles. His most recent book, The Territory Around Us: Literary and Political Journalism, 1982–2015, was published in 2015. He is on the board of the Norman Mailer Society.

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Begiebing, Robert J. “Mailer Expunged; Mailer Restored”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 265–268, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/629.