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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature

Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature

Pugh, Tison

Hardcover

Series: Southern Literary Studies

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 080715184X
ISBN13: 9780807151846
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Dec 9 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood, investigating the foundations of southern gallantry as a reincarnated and reauthorized version of medieval masculinity. Pugh argues that the idea of masculinity -- particularly as seen in works by prominent southern authors from Mark Twain to Ellen Gilchrist -- constitutes a cultural myth that queerly demarcates accepted norms of manliness, often by displaying the impossibility of its achievement.

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