The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Readings of Resistance in Hemingway’s Trauma Fiction

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Anderson, Sarah Wood. “Readings of Resistance in Hemingway’s Trauma Fiction.” In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, 15-34. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Annotation

Draws on trauma theory in her study of the ways in which Hemingway’s war-strained narratives represent masculinity. Anderson focuses on Hemingway’s wounded soldiers, especially Richard Cantwell of Across the River and into the Trees, to demonstrate the effect that the culture of postwar masculinity had on Cantwell’s restricted retelling of his war stories. Concludes that Cantwell negotiates “between two selves—one, the soldier, in which his masculinity is assured; and one, a traumatized self, who is disabled, emasculated, and guilty.”

Published in

Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body

Date

2012

Pages

15-34

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