Cold warriors : manliness on trial in the rhetoric of the West /

"Suzanne Clark describes here how the Cold War excluded women writers on several levels, together with others - African Americans, Native Americans, the poor, men as well as women - who were ignored in the struggle over white male identity."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Suzanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Men in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Gender identity in literature.
World politics in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Cold War in literature.
Soldiers in literature.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
Discours politique > États-Unis.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Guerre froide dans la littérature.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Rhétorique.
Hommes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
English language > Rhetoric.
American literature.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
Literature and society.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
War and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness
  • The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers
  • Cold War modernism and the crisis of story
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again
  • Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life
  • Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory
  • The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments
  • Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.

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