Neta Gordon Book order

Bearers of Risk examines how male Canadian writers mobilize the early twenty- first-century short story cycle as an illustration of post-9/11 recuperative masculinity politics. Neta Gordon unsettles scholarly positions on the inherent outsider status of the short story cycle and exposes the strategic unmarking of White, heteronormative men.

Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion of national identity work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular about the failure of the ideal of a national character.