Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives : A Critical Study of Fiction, Films and Nonfiction Writings

Boyle, Brenda M.

McFarland & Co Inc（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 211 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786445387
• DDC分類 810.9358

Full Description

Occurring alongside the Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, and other identity movements of the 1960s, the Vietnam War was part of an era that rescripted gender and other social identity roles for many, if not most, Americans. This book examines the ways in which the war and its accompanying movements greatly altered traditional American conceptions of masculinity, as reflected in discourses ranging from fictional narratives to memoirs, films, and military recruiting advertisements. Analysis of two canonical fiction texts--John Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country--illustrates the interrelatedness of race, sexuality, disability and masculinity, an approach appearing in no other book-length study. The text illustrates how, decades later, the masculine anxieties of the Vietnam era persist.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Preface     

Introduction: The New Man Dance Discourse     

1. "Don't mean nothin'": Race in the Production of Masculinities     

2. The Nam Syndrome: Improper Sexuality, Improper Gender     

3. Men Out of Mind: Disabilities in Vietnam War Stories     

4. A Litmus Test for Masculinity: The Vietnam War at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century     

Chapter Notes     

Works Cited     

Index