Homo Americanus

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, AND QUEER MASCULINITIES

John S. Bak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2009
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-429-9 (ISBN)

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Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises and Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This book explores the two works many sociopolitical, literary, and intertextual ties, in particular how the conclusion of one echoes that of the other, not just in its irony but also in its implication of the audiences participation in engendering the social rules responsible for the protagonists struggle to negotiate his sexual identity. Hemingway's Sun shares more with Williams' Cat than just a similar ending, however. Both works explore more broadly the construction of a queer masculinity, where the parameters that define masculinity and sexuality grow as unstable and irresolute as the frontier during a war or the line of scrimmage during a football game.

John S. Bak is Associate Professor at Nancy-Université in France.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2009
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 244 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-61147-429-9 / 1611474299
ISBN-13	978-1-61147-429-9 / 9781611474299
Zustand	Neuware