When Cowboys Come Home : : Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America / / Aaron George.
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One...
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George, Aaron, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut When Cowboys Come Home : Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America / Aaron George. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023] 2024 1 online resource (270 p.) : 6 B-W images text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: What We Bring Home -- Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow -- Part 1 Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier -- 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming -- 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah -- 3 The "Age of Heroes" Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War -- Part 2 Coming Home -- 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity -- 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony -- 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It -- 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet -- Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. One particularly important strand of thought, which influenced later anxieties over "other-direction" and "conformity," argued that masculinity was not defined by traits like bravery, stoicism, and competitiveness but instead by authenticity, shared camaraderie, and emotional honesty. To elucidate this challenge to traditional "frontiersman" masculinity, Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war: James Jones, the writer of the monumentally important war novel From Here to Eternity; Stewart Stern, one of the most important screenwriters of the fifties and sixties, including for Rebel without a Cause; and Edward Field, a bohemian poet who used poetry to explore his love for other men. Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023) Authors, American 20th century Biography. Masculinity in literature. World War, 1939-1945 Veterans Biography. HISTORY / General. bisacsh masculinity, war, trauma, World War II, WWI, gender norms, media studies, culture, pop culture, veterans. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978821606 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978821606 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978821606/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: What We Bring Home -- Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow -- Part 1 Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier -- 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming -- 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah -- 3 The "Age of Heroes" Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War -- Part 2 Coming Home -- 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity -- 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony -- 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It -- 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet -- Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: What We Bring Home -- Introduction: Hemingway's Shadow -- Part 1 Cowboys on the Wartime Frontier -- 1 Never a Secondhand Man: James Jones and the Perils of Homecoming -- 2 The Big Noise: Stewart Stern's Long March to Gar Naruah -- 3 The "Age of Heroes" Edward Field and Gay Authenticity in the Midst of War -- Part 2 Coming Home -- 4 The Hipster, the Prophet, and the Angel: Writers on the Edge of Eternity -- 5 The Men Who Came Running: James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony -- 6 Waiting for Peter Pan: Adulthood and How to Attain It -- 7 The Continuing Adventures of Icarus: Edward Field's Life in the Postwar Closet -- Conclusion: A Nation of Gray Flannel Men -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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