Queer Cowboys

And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

C. Packard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2005
St Martin's Press (Verlag)
978-0-312-29340-6 (ISBN)

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Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well as now-forgotten writers, illustrators, and photographers, suggest that in the period before the word 'homosexual' and its synonyms were invented, same-sex intimacy and erotic admiration were key aspects of a masculine code. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indian vaqueros defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called 'strenuous living' with other bachelors in the relative 'purity' of wilderness conditions. Queer Cowboys recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics, historical ephemera, and theatrical performances.

CHRIS PACKARD teaches Literature and Writing at New York University and New School University, USA.

Introduction Decoding the Encrypted Erotics of Nineteenth-Century Westerns Intersections of Race and Homosexuality in the Wilderness Scandal in the Boom Towns: Print Cultures and Sexual Prohibitions Cowboy Poses: The Queer Eye in Early Photographs Singing From the Saddle: The 'Wild' West Goes Vaudeville Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.5.2005
Zusatzinfo	IX, 144 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-312-29340-2 / 0312293402
ISBN-13	978-0-312-29340-6 / 9780312293406
Zustand	Neuware