“You’ll go out there as boys and come back as men:” Masculinities and Rites of Passage in Peter May’s The Blackhouse

This chapter traces the rites of passage depicted in Peter May's 2009 novel The Blackhouse and analyzes how these rites, involuntarily undergone by the male characters, often fail, resulting in the construction of various adult/masculine identities.For the descriptions and theories of rites of passa... View More