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- Title
Alt-right Masculinities: Construction and Commodification of the Ethnonationalist Anti-hero.
- Authors
Newsom, Victoria Ann; Lengel, Lara Martin; Yeung, Michelle F.
- Abstract
This study codifies the category of the alt-right anti-hero and the antihero’s characteristics. In examining alt-right digital rhetorics, we found allusions to heroism in manifestos by killers, both recent and historical, that highlighted heroic actions from alt-right perspectives that were in direct contrast to progressive efforts toward multiculturalism, gender rights, immigration, and other systemic equities. We also found that such heroism espoused in alt-right rhetorics more directly reflected literary and mediated anti-heroes than traditionally understood heroic actions. Thus, we investigated mediated culture for alt-right anti-hero examples. We found them in Breaking Bad’s Walter White as an anti-hero for the shrinking middle class, American Horror Story: Cult’s Kai Anderson as a pro-Trump anti-hero, and Westworld’s neo- Western anti-hero, Man in Black, all of whom reflect a growing form of aggressive masculinity in U.S. society. The characteristics of these mediated characters mimic narrative constructs of the alt-right’s espoused heroisms, characteristics inhabited by some of those taking on the role of ethnonationalist mass murderer
- Subjects
TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; ALT-Right (Political science); COMMODIFICATION; MASS murderers; MIDDLE class; HORROR tales; MASCULINE identity
- Publication
Women & Language, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
8755-4550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34036/WL.2020.022