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Guys Like Us Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226137407 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 06 Jan 2004 |
Edition: | 1 |
DEWEY: | 811.5409358 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 281 |
Weight: | 397g |
Height: | 23mm |
Width: | 15mm |
Spine width: | 2mm |