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- W4224300876 abstract "This chapter discusses the relationship between constructions of masculinity and representations of natural resource extraction in western American literature, and specifically in the genre of the Western. Masculinity studies and western American studies have an especially intimate relationship: masculinity remains a primary concern of scholarship on the Western and the US West plays a foundational role in accounts of US masculinity. Theorizations within each of these fields of a dominant masculinity—white, hardened, violent—align with the vision of resource extraction threaded throughout the Western, which exemplifies in its diggings the act of violent penetration central to these theorizations: men penetrate, but male bodies are themselves impenetrable. But read through the lens of the Anthropocene, in which a history of colonial exploitation becomes visible on an increasingly degraded landscape, the Western’s interest in extraction reveals the fragility, rather than the strength, of white male bodies, even as the genre so often refuses to recognize the future risk threaded into such a narrative. This chapter reframes the Western’s penetrative masculinity as extractive masculinity, in which male violence rebounds upon the bodies that enact it. Through a close reading of John Williams’s revisionist Western, Butcher’s Crossing (1960), I argue that the belated gaze of the Anthropocene makes visible that the Western has not simply been a genre in which impenetrable white men prove victorious over nonwhite and nonhuman others through penetrative violence, but one in which the western environment threatens the very same human bodies that put the land under threat." @default.
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- W4224300876 title "Extractive Masculinity" @default.
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