Neta Gordon Knihy

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.

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.