Masculinities in literature of the American West /

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cooper, Lydia R., 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:	Global masculinities series.
Subjects:	American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism. Western stories > History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. Men in literature. Men > Identity. National characteristics, American, in literature. National characteristics, American > History. West (U.S.) > In literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.

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.