Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture - Couverture souple

Penner, James

 
9780253222510: Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture

Synopsis

Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how debates about "hard" and "soft" masculinity influenced the class struggles of the 1930s, anti-communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and the clash between the Old Left and the New Left in the 1960s. By extending literary culture to include not just novels, plays, and poetry, but diaries, journals, manifestos, screenplays, and essays on psychology and sociology, Penner unveils the multiplicity of gender attitudes that emerge in each of the decades he addresses.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Penner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

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9780253355478: Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture

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ISBN 10 :  0253355478 ISBN 13 :  9780253355478
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2010
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