Playing the game: Violence and the revolt against normative masculinity in John Updike's 'Rabbit Run', Norman Mailer's 'An American Dream', and Phil Andros's

his thesis will examine two high-brow examples of Cold War literature by white male authors, Norman Mailer's An American Dream (1965) and John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), and examine them through the lens of the lesser-known gay pulp...