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Title

The Complete Body of Modernity in the 1920s: Negotiating Hegemonic and Subordinated Masculinities in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Requena-Perlegrí, Teresa. “The Complete Body of Modernity in the 1920s: Negotiating Hegemonic and Subordinated Masculinities in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.” In Embodying Masculinities: Towards a History of the Male Body in U.S. Culture and Literature, edited by Josep M. Armengol, 13-29. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Annotation

Draws on gender theory to examine the 1920s’ socially constructed hierarchy of manliness represented in The Sun Also Rises. Requena-Perlegrí analyzes the “whole” white male body within the context of the technologically advancing modernist period, addressing Jake Barnes’s ability to transcend his position of masculine subordination resulting from his “incomplete” body, thus revealing the permeability of hegemonic masculinity.

Published in

Embodying Masculinities: Towards a History of the Male Body in U.S. Culture and Literature

Date

2013

Pages

13-29

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