dc.creator | Ross, Donika DeShawn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T20:40:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-01 | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-08-01 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07312013-151701 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756 | |
dc.description.abstract | This project argues that white American manhood has generic conventions that obscure the nuances of contemporary white manhood. I turn to contemporary westerns where I employ an oppositional gaze to illuminate strategies for how white manhood might be reread. From Lonesome Dove (1985) to True Grit (2010), these westerns articulate and elaborate a broader cultural shift in popular conceptions of white manhood via four iterations of the homodomestic, or private communal space shared by same-sex-identifying persons, and their relationship to the heterodomestic. This project provides insight into the changed landscape of white manhood, and complicates the mythic cowboy to reveal a culture of labor, fraternity, and domesticity. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | masculinity studies | |
dc.subject | whiteness | |
dc.subject | westerns | |
dc.subject | film | |
dc.subject | American literature | |
dc.title | Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dana D. Nelson | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Paul Young | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Sarah Igo | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2015-08-01 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2015-08-01 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Michael Kreyling | |