Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness -- The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers -- Cold War modernism and the crisis of story -- Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again -- Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life -- Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory -- The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments -- Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.
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