(Source: Manchester University Press)
Manchester
University Press is publishing a book on the Western genre and American gun
rights and legal paradigms later this month.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book is a
cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun
rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing
tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers,
the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has
sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the
conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging
justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun
violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Justin A. Joyce
is Research Associate to Provost McBride at Emory University and Managing Editor
of the James Baldwin Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
the warp, woof, and weave of American gun violence
1 'A kind of
wild justice': revenge and constitutional commentary in the Western
2 No retreat:
American self-defense doctrine
3 American gun
rights: from national defense to self-defense
4 The guns that
'won the Western': firearm iconography in western literature and film
5 Guns and
governmentality: normative masculinity and disciplined gun violence
6 Deserve's got
[everything] to do with it: property, process, and justice in Unforgiven
7 Old dogs and
new tricks: race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism's Western imagination
Index
More information here
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