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Revisions Of The American Adam eBook

Innocence, Identity And Masculinity In Twentieth Century America

by Jonathan Mitchell
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, November of 2011 ‧
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The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth
in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new
adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling,
ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and
inherent resources", the figure is discernable in the American renaissance
writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in
the heroes of US action movies.

 
Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation,
this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identity
in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell''s study explores
the complexities and contradictions of Adam''s ''real'' condition of existence to show
how the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic US
identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.

Revisions Of The American Adam

Innocence, Identity And Masculinity In Twentieth Century America

by Jonathan Mitchell

Property Description
ISBN: 9781441169525
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Release Date: November of 2011
Language: English
Pages: 172
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility: PDF para ADE
Collection: Continuum Literary Studies
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Cinema
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9781441169525

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