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Introduction: Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature
Within academic disciplines, the category of Global South is highly contested with no agreements on the definition of the term. One cannot deny the amorphous nature of the term, yet its gravitational pull can be potentially effective in connecting the different forms of ongoing exploitation – both of humans and more-than-humans. This special issue aims to focus on how to think of the episteme of the Global South in ways that could be enabling, liberating, capacious enough to sharpen our imaginative and performative utopian lens.
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He Was Some Kind of a Man
He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author's childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration of the films influence on modern views of masculinity.
McGillis argues that the masculinity offered by these films is less one-dimensional than it is plural, perhaps contrary to expectations. Their deeply conservative values are edged with transgressive desire, and they construct a male figure who does not fit into binary categories, such as insider/outsider or masculine/feminine. Particularly relevant is the author's discussion of George W. Bush as a cowboy and how his aspirations to cowboy ideals continue to shape American policy.
This engagingly written book will appeal to the general reader interested in film, westerns, and contemporary culture as well as to scholars in film studies, gender studies, children's literature, and auto/biography.
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The Sustaining Paradox
In 1957, Frank Kermode publishedRomantic Imageand put paid to the half century of resistance to the lure of Romanticism expressed by writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, F.L. Lucas, F. R. Leavis, and T.E. Hulme. Since then, the continuing influence of Romanticism right up to our own day is pretty much a given. In 1985, Jerome McGann publishedThe Romantic Ideology, and perhaps we thought we had shucked the Romantic ideology in favor of a postmodernist relativism. But for diehard utopians, Romanticism offers a healthy dose of skeptical idealism. Alan Moore is a diehard skeptical idealist, and
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