Serious Tourists: Mexican Landscape and Masculine Identity in Mina Loy’s “Mexican Desert” and William Carlos Williams’s “Desert Music”

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-126

  Gunn, Michelle Wallace ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colonialism; eugenics; landscape; masculinity; Mexico; Mina Loy; modernism; poetry; tourism; William Carlos Williams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147127809     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X03257511     Document Type: Article

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