Masculinities in Literature of the American West

1. Introduction
Lydia R. Cooper

2. The Death of a Cross-Dressing Bear: Sexual Violence and Male Rape on the Frontier of Blood Meridian
Lydia R. Cooper

3. Of Fertility and Sterility: Feminine Masculinity and the Western in Ceremony
Lydia R. Cooper

4. Outlaw Geography: Place and Masculinity in Desperadoes and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Lydia R. Cooper

5. Savages and Citizens: Revisions of the Captivity Narrative in Gardens in the Dunes and The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Lydia R. Cooper

6. The Unpunishing of Anton Chigurh: Fraternity as the Final Frontier in No Country for Old Men
Lydia R. Cooper

7. Martial Masculinity and the Ethics of Heroism in Fools Crow
Lydia R. Cooper

Nyckelord: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature