Ernest Hemingway and the Mirror of Manhood: Fetishism, Transvestism, Homeovestism, and Perverse M connaissance

Journal article

Carl P. Eby

Arizona Quarterly, Vol.54(3), pp.27-68

1998

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Title: Ernest Hemingway and the Mirror of Manhood: Fetishism, Transvestism, Homeovestism, and Perverse M connaissance
Author/Creator: Carl P. Eby
Publication Details: Arizona Quarterly, Vol.54(3), pp.27-68
Annotation: Analysis of Hemingway s divided sexuality, drawing on the author s personal letters, published and unpublished works, and theories of psychosexual transgression. Reads David Bourne of The Garden of Eden as possessing a rift in his sense of gender identity and in the basic structure of his ego, relating his struggles to Hemingway s. Argues Catherine Bourne is a resurrection of Catherine Barkley of A Farewell to Arms, with both representing the split-off feminine half of Hemingway s ego. Explores various confusions of self in mirror reflections throughout Hemingway s canon, arguing that the author identified transvestically with the phallic woman and homeovestically with his father. Concludes that Hemingway serves as a model of manhood because of the courageous record he left of his constructed masculinity and femininity.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132021603691