- Title
- "The Great General Was a Has-Been": Homoerotic Re-Definitions of Masculinity in 1950s Conformist Culture
- Author/Creator
- Jon Robert Adams
- Publication Details
- Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Vol.6(3), pp.116-135
- Annotation
- Argues that the aging and useless Santiago of The Old Man and the Sea represents a transformation of the American heroic ideal following World War II. Compares novella to James Jones s The Thin Red Line (1962) and Gore Vidal s The City and the Pillar (1948), claiming that all three authors reveal a fundamental shift during the cold war era regarding America s views on masculinity. Briefly compares the soldier s response to war in In Our Time to Jones s novel.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132038003691
Journal article
"The Great General Was a Has-Been": Homoerotic Re-Definitions of Masculinity in 1950s Conformist Culture
Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Vol.6(3), pp.116-135
2004
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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