商品簡介
Adams (English, Western Michigan U.) explores changing understandings of masculinity in American war literature. She reads Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar, and James Barr's Quatrefoil as reactions against a post-war conformist culture and nostalgia for a world of men without women. She then discusses Joseph Heller's Catch-22 as a justification of a brand of heroic masculinity that conflicted with civilian expectations of soldierly service. Michael Herr's Dispatches and David Rabe's Streamers are argued to privilege individual bodily coherence over traditional heroic function and also highlight disparities between soldierly experience and civilian expectations. The film Three Kings and Anthony Swofford's Jarhead continue to highlight these disparities with their depiction of traitors as heroes. Finally, recent representations of the occupation of Iraq are discussed. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jon Robert Adams is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University.
