American Impotence: Narratives of National Manhood in Postwar U.S. Literature

“American Impotence” investigates a continuity between literary representations of masculinity and considerations of national identity in the works of five postwar novelists. In particular, I illustrate the manner in which Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, John Updike’s Couples, Robert Coover’s The Pub...

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Main Author: Loughran, Colin
Other Authors: Cobb, Michael
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42531