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Anna De Biasio, « Elisa Bordin, Masculinity and Westerns: Regenerations at the Turn of the New Millennium », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.11155
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The western is by definition a masculine genre; or, we should say, by redefinition. Whereas its paraphernalia can to some extent vary, its top icon remains the strong, solitary cowboy, who —since his first modern appearance in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902)— is also laconic and charismatic, occasionally violent and at the same time chivalrous: in a word, an emblem of secure manhood. At closer inspection, the icon and the genre that hosts it are less safe than they seem. If its ancestors w...