Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man
Description:
This thesis investigates how hegemonic white masculinity adopts a new mode of material accumulation by entering into an ambivalent existence as a historical agent and metahistory at the same time and continues to function as a performative identity that offers a point of identification for the working class white man suggesting that bourgeois identity is obtainable through the performance of bourgeois ethics. The thesis postulates that the phenomenal transitions brought on by industrialization …
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Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Murphree, Hyon Joo Yoo
Partner:
UNT Libraries