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Title: MASCULINITIES IN LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Volume: 2016
By: Lydia R. Cooper, K. Grant
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1137568992
ISBN 13: 9781137568991
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 6 January, 2016
Edition: 2016 ed.
Series: Global Masculinities
Pages: 197
Description: The Western genre provides some of the most iconic images of masculinity in the history of American literature. Challenging the notion of manliness in these Westerns, Cooper examines how contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Marmon Silko in fact expose the pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man."
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Non-returnable
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