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Masculinities in Literature of the American West



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Palgrave Macmillan


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Global Masculinities

Paru le : 2016-11-15



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The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of justice. This idealized masculinity has been fused with ideas of national identity and character. Masculinities in Literature of the American West examines how contemporary literary Westerns push back against the coded image of the Western hero, exposing pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man." Contemporary Westerns critique assumptions about innate connections between power, masculinity, and "American" character that influence public rhetoric even in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These novels struggle with the monumental challenge of all Westerns: the challenge of being human in a place where "being a man" is so strictly coded, so unachievable, so complicit in atrocity, and so desirable that it is worth dying for, worth killing for, or perhaps worth nothing at all.
Pages
197 pages
Collection
Global Masculinities
Parution
2016-11-15
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137568991
EAN PDF
9781137564771
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Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
19
Taille du fichier
1884 Ko
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