Hemingway's genders : rereading the Hemingway text

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Hemingway's genders : rereading the Hemingway text

Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes

Yale University Press, c1994

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Includes bibliographical refernces (p. 147-149) and index

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Description

Ernest Hemingway has long been regarded as a fiercely heterosexual writer who advocated and embodied an exaggerated masculinity. This book focuses exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing, and presents a new view of the author, demonstrating that issues of gender and sexuality are more complex and subtle in his work than has ever been imagined. The authors reread the Hemingway Text - his published and unpublished writing and what is known about his life - and show that gender was one of his conscious preoccupations. They explore the anguish and uncertainty beneath the blunt facade of Papa Hemingway; they examine a range of Hemingway's fictional women in such works as "The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and suggest that his best representations of women take on attributes of gender commonly viewed as male; they discuss how lesbianism, sex changes, and miscegenation appear in Hemingway's early and late writing; and they analyze examples of homosexual desire among boys and men in Hemingway's stories of bullfighters and soldiers.

Table of Contents

  • Decoding papa
  • mothers, nurses, bitches, girls, and devils
  • sea changes and tribal things
  • toros, cojones, y maricones.

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