RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 El Capitán as a site for male healing from trauma in Jeff Long’s "The wall" and Tommy Caldwell’s "The push" A1 Salovaara, Harri A1 Rodi-Risberg, Marinella K1 El Capitan K1 Nature K1 Trauma K1 Masculinity K1 Jeff Long K1 Tommy Caldwell K1 El Capitán K1 Naturaleza K1 Masculinidad K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB Nature and mountains are often represented as places of healing in literature and the media, especially for white, healthy, and middleclass men. However, discussions on nature and gender in relation to trauma are rare, and a specific discussion on the representation of male mountain climbers’ traumas is missing. In this article, we are interested in how nature, particularly the famous mountain El Capitan, is represented in Jeff Long’s novel “The Wall” (2006) and Tommy Caldwell’s memoir “The Push” (2017) as a specific spatial location of healing for male rock climbers, who at the same time are both victims of traumatic events and partially responsible for the development of those events. More specifically, this article places ecofeminist and ecological masculinities scholarship in dialog with trauma studies and analyzes these texts with the aim of showing how representations of trauma relate to those of nature and masculinity. In this analysis, questions of how certain aspects of ecological and hegemonic masculinities relate to representing trauma, nature, and masculinity are central, as are issues of perpetrator trauma and the non-generic character of traumatic experience. Ultimately, we show how representations of nature, trauma, and masculinities in the primary texts converge and reflect a plurality of gendered responses to trauma and healing in nature. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/40066 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/40066 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024