Melancholy Modernism: Gender and the Politics of the Mourning in The Sun Also Rises

Journal article

Greg Forter

Hemingway Review, Vol.21(1), pp.22-37

10/01/2001

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Title: Melancholy Modernism: Gender and the Politics of the Mourning in The Sun Also Rises
Author/Creator: Greg Forter
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.21(1), pp.22-37
Annotation: Reads the novel as Hemingway s melancholic response to the crisis of masculinity in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Analyzes Hemingway s struggle to relinquish his identification with two opposing forms of manhood, the sentimental and the invulnerable, arguing that the author finds resolution through the speech fetishes and ritualized behaviors of his characters. Significantly revised version published as Redeeming Violence in The Sun Also Rises: Phallic Embodiment, Primitive Ritual, Fetishistic Melancholia in Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism, 54-95. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132293503691