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Homo Americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities

Homo Americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611474299
ISBN13: 9781611474299
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 audience's participation in engendering the social rules responsible for the protagonist's struggle to negotiate his sexual identity.

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