Съдържание:
  • Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness
  • The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers
  • Cold War modernism and the crisis of story
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again
  • Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life
  • Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory
  • The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments
  • Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.