- Title
- Homo americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities
- Author/Creator
- John S. Bak
- Annotation
- Influence study. Examines the sociohistorical, sociopolitical, and literary connections between the two authors, primarily through an intertextual reading of The Sun Also Rises and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Discusses the ironic endings of both texts, focusing specifically on the protagonists struggles with sexual identity and the construction of queer masculinity. Bak views Williams s evolving relationship with his heterosexual audience of the Cold War and homosexual audience after the Stonewall gay liberation movement through the lens of Hemingway s fiction. Argues that Hemingway s posthumous novels (Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and True at First Light) more openly support Williams s efforts to challenge the Cold War s sexual politics than earlier works such as The Sun Also Rises.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015132070003691
Book
Homo americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities
2010
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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