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  title info:
    title: Masculinities in literature of the American West
  name:
    name part: Cooper, Lydia R.
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 197 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States, gunslinging, 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: "My American heart": how contemporary Westerns reimagine masculinity -- 1. The death of a cross-dressing bear: sexual violence and male rape on the frontier of Blood meridian -- 2. Of fertility and sterility: feminine masculinity and the Western in Ceremony -- 3. Outlaw geography: place and masculinity in Desperadoes and The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford -- 4. Savages and citizens: revisions of the captivity narrative in Gardens in the dunes and The heartsong of Charging Elk -- 5. The unpunishing of Anton Chigurh: fraternity as the final frontier in No country for old men -- 6. Martial masculinity and the ethics of heroism in Fools crow.
  note: Lydia R. Cooper.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Western stories
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Men in literature
  subject:
    topic: Men
    topic: Identity
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American, in literature
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, American
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Books & Reading
  classification: PS271 .C74 2016
  classification: 813/.08740935211
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Global masculinities series
  identifier: 9781137568991
  identifier: 1137568992
  identifier: 2015026189
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150811
    record change date: 20170928112409.0
    record identifier: in00003608755