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
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
COinS
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.