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The Mourning After
- Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
Engelsk Paperback
The Mourning After
- Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
Engelsk Paperback

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On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these intimacies faced both scorn and vicious homophobia. The Mourning After makes sense of this cruel irony, telling the story of the unmeasured toll exacted upon generations of male friendships. John Ibson draws evidence from the contrasting views of male closeness depicted in WWII-era fiction by Gore Vidal and John Horne Burns, as well as from such wide-ranging sources as psychiatry texts, child development books, the memoirs of veterans’ children, and a slew of vernacular snapshots of happy male couples. In this sweeping reinterpretation of the postwar years, Ibson argues that a prolonged mourning for tenderness lost lay at the core of midcentury American masculinity, leaving far too many men with an unspoken ache that continued long after the fighting stopped, forever damaging their relationships with their wives, their children, and each other.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780226576688
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022657668X
Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2018
Længde:
40mm
Bredde:
254mm
Højde:
178mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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