Masculinities In Literature Of The American West by Lydia R. Cooper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

The Western genre provides some of the most iconic images of masculinity in the history of American literature. Challenging the notion of manliness in these Westerns, Cooper examines how contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Marmon Silko in fact expose the pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man." | Masculinities In Literature Of The American West by Lydia R. Cooper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters