Male armor the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture / [electronic resource] :
Jon Robert Adams.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
- xi, 160 p.
- Cultural frames, framing culture .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.
Introduction : soldier's heart -- "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture -- The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity -- Envelope, please : the metonymic male -- Winning this time : the war that wasn't -- Conclusion : time warp.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Men--United States. Masculinity--United States. War in literature. Masculinity in literature.