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American Myth and Ideologies of Straight White Masculinity in Men's Literary Self-Representations
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American Myth and Ideologies of Straight White Masculinity in Men's Literary Self-Representations
Yazar:
Parish, Mary J., author.
ISBN:
9780438014886
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1 electronic resource (286 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Linda A. Kinnahan Committee members: Thomas P. Kinnahan; Magali C. Michael.
Özet:
This study examines three texts written in post-World War II America (1959--1973) that take as their subject a straight white man's reflection on and engagement with the exercise of male power and the forces, both internal and external, that shape the degree to which he is "self-made," i.e., an autonomous agent able to exert his will within a life domain (domestic, public, and war). Each of these writers---Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien---engages in surveillance not solely of their own power, but also of the men who influence their experience, using their observations to critique, assert, and question the gendered realities and expectations that impact their perceptions of themselves and their experience. This dissertation considers each text through the lens of one national mythology---taking into account the impact of that strand of mythology on the performance of masculinity, including the entitlements these mythologies normalize and the deviancies (the Otherness) they contain and control. Finally, this analysis examines the intersection between genre and the representation of the self as a straight white man, identifying the ways in which genre interacts with and often magnifies the effects of each text.
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School code: 0067
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