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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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] 2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 6 B-W images |
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Table of Contents:
- 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