Title
Getting One In: Masculinity and Hemingway’s Boxing Stories
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Exploration of the culturally constructed masculine ideal found in “The Battler” and “Fifty Grand.” Asserts that Hemingway’s image of the boxer challenges the conventional view of autonomous masculinity, revealing it to be merely performance rather than true essence. Concludes that both stories demonstrate the impossibility of achieving a stable masculine identity.
Published in
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture
Volume
47
Issue
1
Date
1999
Pages
54-63
COinS
Citation
Nyman, Jopi. “Getting One In: Masculinity and Hemingway’s Boxing Stories.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture 47, no. 1 (1999): 54-63.