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Revisions of the American Adam - Innocence, Identity and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,543
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Revisions of the American Adam - Innocence, Identity and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (Paperback): Jonathan Mitchell

Revisions of the American Adam - Innocence, Identity and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (Paperback)

Jonathan Mitchell

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The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique andinherent resources," the figure is discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identity in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell's study exploresthe complexities and contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to show how the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic US identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2013
First published: October 2013
Authors: Jonathan Mitchell
Dimensions: 232 x 161 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-0643-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
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LSN: 1-4725-0643-X
Barcode: 9781472506436

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