Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West

by Suzanne Clark

Book Overview

Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West returns to familiar cultural forces--the West, anticommunism, and manliness--to show how they combined to suppress dissent and dominate the unruliness of literature in the name of a national identity after World War II. Few realize how much the domination of a "white male" American literary canon was a product not of long history, but of the Cold War. Suzanne Clark describes here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323028
• ISBN13: 9780809323029
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"