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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226137406

ISBN13:9780226137407

Release Date:December 2003

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:281 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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