Male armor
Subtitle: the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture
By: Jon Robert Adams.
Series: Cultural frames, framing culture
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780813927527; 9780813927534
Subjects: Men -- United States; Masculinity -- United States; War in literature; Masculinity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : soldier's heart; title: "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture; title: The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity; title: Envelope, please : the metonymic male; title: Winning this time : the war that wasn't; title: Conclusion : time warp.