The Frontier as Masculine Territory: Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juárez in Context
Contemporary adventure narratives – from westerns and war stories to thrillers and hard-boiled detective fictions – still insistently activate the myth of the frontier, which is offered as a space where men can achieve regeneration and a sense of purpose by indulging a form of masculinity based on v...
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The International Academic Forum
2016-11-01
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| Series: | IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship |
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| Online Access: | https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/volume-5-issue-1/article-2/ |