Reading Desire

Moddelmog, Debra A.

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“…The publication of this novel set in motion a wave of critical texts that revolutionized academia’s understanding of my grandfather’s work. Scholars such as Carl Eby, Nancy Comley, Robert Scholes, and Debra Moddlemog (Eby 1999; Comley and Scholes 1994; Moddelmog 1999) examined Ernest’s other side, and even if the results of their studies have been for the most part completely ignored by the general public, for me they were an enormous aid in writing my memoir, Strange Tribe (Hemingway 2007a). They helped me see the similarities between these two men and to dispel once and for all the idea that my father was not a “real” Hemingway.…”

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Ernest Hemingway, the False Macho

Hemingway¹

2012

Men and Masculinities

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Certainly, when people think of Ernest Hemingway what comes to mind for most is the idea that he was a ''man's man,'' a true macho who loved in equal parts drinking, hunting, war, and womanizing. He is associated with Pamplona and the running of the bulls, corrida, deep-sea fishing for marlin in the Caribbean, and the shooting of lions and water buffalo in East Africa. He was a man of action, the Lord Byron of his age, seriously wounded in Italy in the First World War, the survivor of two airplane crashes and, of course, as a writer someone who won both the Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize for literature. Yet, while all of the above is true, this traditional image of my grandfather was problematic for me as I was growing up. Being a part of the family I couldn't, like most of my grandfather's many admirers, look at the man and just see the legendary writer and world traveler. This was because my father, Ernest's youngest son Gregory, seemed to be as different as you could be from the author of The Old Man and the Sea. From his early teenage years, Gregory cross-dressed and eventually underwent a series of operations at the age of sixty-four to change his sex. Needless to say, there were many times when I'd ask myself, just what connection could there possibly be between this cross-dressing, transsexual Doctor of Medicine (MD), and America's macho icon? While there didn't seem to be any on the surface, even as a boy I knew that there was a strong link between the two men. Yet, knowing that there was this connection didn't necessarily mean that I was eager to explore their possible similarities. As a young man, I thought that if Ernest was anything at all like my father, then what did this say about me? Was I like them? Perhaps, destined to

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Ernest Hemingway, the False Macho

Hemingway¹

2012

Men and Masculinities

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A Farewell to Arms(1929):Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice

Phelan¹

2013

Reading the American Novel 1920‐2010

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Modernist Fiction

Suárez¹

2010

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth‐Century Fiction

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Initially, “modernist fiction” named the experimental narrative of the interwar period, most eminently associated with Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, and, secondarily, with Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, and Willa Cather. Their masterpieces belonged to “the jazz age,” even though Stein started publishing before, Faulkner's best work appeared during the 1930s, and some of these writers remained active until the early 1960s. Early approaches to this work were formal, influenced by the New Criticism, and when historically minded scholars like Alfred Kazin or Lionel Trilling discussed this literature, they tended to invoke a mixture of biographical and national motifs, such as individual alienation before a mercantilist society indifferent to aesthetic value or the disillusionment of a generation marked by World War I.

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Reading Desire

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Ernest Hemingway, the False Macho

Ernest Hemingway, the False Macho

A Farewell to Arms(1929):Bildung, Tragedy, and the Rhetoric of Voice

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