Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works

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Tania Chakravertty

Routledge

2023

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Title: Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works
Author/Creator: Tania Chakravertty
Annotation: Explores Hemingway's lifelong fascination with gender identity and sexual ambiguity beginning in his childhood and culminating in his writing of The Garden of Eden. Chakravertty situates the author's most popular fiction historically, socio-culturally, and biographically, opening with a survey of the changing gender landscape for middle-class white women from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Discusses the influence of Hemingway's upbringing by fluidly gendered parents and the era's sexual and gender revolutions (and the subsequent anxiety arising from his lack of a stable gender identity) on his writing and relationships with women. Finding Hemingway's portrayal of female characters as complex and individualized as his male characters, Chakravertty concludes that Hemingway's texts, in resisting and subverting binary gender oppositions, reveals an "observant and sensitive author who spent all his life in search of an idealized androgynous self." Examines "Hills Like White Elephants," "Cat in the Rain," The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, The Garden of Eden and others. Includes index.
Publisher: Routledge; New York
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
Record Identifier: 991015213188803691