Guys Like Us - Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics

"Guys Like Us" considers how writers of the 1950s and '60s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort. Michael Davidson examines a wide range of postwar literature, from the fiction of Jack Kerouac to the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath. He also explores the connection between masculinity and sexuality in films such as Chinatown and The Lady from Shanghai, as well as television shows, plays, and magazines from the period. What results is a virtuoso work that looks at American poetic and artistic innovation through the revealing lenses of gender and history. Zusammenfassung This work considers how writers of the 1950s and 1960s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort.

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• Authors: Michael Davidson, Michael (Professor of Literature Davidson, Davidson Michael, DAVIDSON MICHAEL PROFESSOR OF LI
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2003
• EAN: 9780226137407
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13740-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity