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Author_John S. Bak
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Product details
- ISBN 9781611474299
- Weight: 585g
- Dimensions: 165 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009
- Publisher: Associated University Presses
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises and Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This book explores the two works many sociopolitical, literary, and intertextual ties, in particular how the conclusion of one echoes that of the other, not just in its irony but also in its implication of the audiences participation in engendering the social rules responsible for the protagonists struggle to negotiate his sexual identity. Hemingway's Sun shares more with Williams' Cat than just a similar ending, however. Both works explore more broadly the construction of a queer masculinity, where the parameters that define masculinity and sexuality grow as unstable and irresolute as the frontier during a war or the line of scrimmage during a football game.
John S. Bak is Associate Professor at Nancy-Université in France.
