Title Cold warriors : manliness on trial in the rhetoric of the West / Suzanne Clark

Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Men in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 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. English language -- United States -- Rhetoric LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. English language -- Rhetoric 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 Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99039120 ISBN 058532574X 9780585325743

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