Clark, Suzanne.

Cold warriors : manliness on trial in the rhetoric of the West / Suzanne Clark. - Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.

Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness -- The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers -- Cold War modernism and the crisis of story -- Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again -- Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life -- Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory -- The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments -- Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.

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"Suzanne Clark describes here how the Cold War excluded women writers on several levels, together with others - African Americans, Native Americans, the poor, men as well as women - who were ignored in the struggle over white male identity."--Jacket.


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American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Men in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Gender identity in literature.
World politics in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Cold War in literature.
Soldiers in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Rhetoric--Political aspects.
Soldiers in literature.
War and literature.
World politics in literature.


United States.


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