Masculinities in Literature of the American West

By:

Lydia R Cooper

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Global Masculinities

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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.

Author Biography:

Lydia R. Cooper is Assistant Professor of English at Creighton University, USA. She is the author of No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy, as well as numerous articles on McCarthy and other contemporary American and Native American writers.

Release date Australia

February 19th, 2016

Author

Lydia R Cooper

Series

Global Masculinities

Pages

197

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XIII, 197 p.

ISBN-13

9781349566006

Product ID

29014947

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