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Masculinities in Literature of the American West (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Masculinities in Literature of the American West (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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.
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