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Queer Chivalry : Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature /
For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Quee...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Southern History, Mythic White Masculinity, and Queering the Medieval Chivalric Ideal; 2 Dialectical History, White Indians, and Queer Anxiety in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; 3 Medieval Masculinity, Southern Chivalry, and Redemptive Homosexuality in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction; 4 "It's prolly fulla dirty stories": Queer Masculinity and Masturbatory Allegory in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.
- 5 "I am the Lost Cause": Queer History, the Southern Phallus, and the Quest for Medieval Timelessness in Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To6 "The Sir Walter Disease" and Queer Quests for Masculinity in Walker Percy's Novels; 7 Conclusion: Ellen Gilchrist's The Annunciation and the Queer Future of Chivalric Masculinities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.