Title
War-Broken Masculinities and the Search for Healing in The Sun Also Rises and Home to Harlem
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Comparison study focusing on the theme of fractured masculine ideals (especially the notions of masculinity as conquest and war as masculine adventure) in The Sun Also Rises and Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (1928). Argues against the possibility of Jake Barnes and Jake Brown experiencing true masculine healing in the post-World War I wasteland of American culture.
Published in
Literatures of War
Date
2008
Pages
132-146
COinS
Citation
Bayindir, Turgay. “War-Broken Masculinities and the Search for Healing in The Sun Also Rises and Home to Harlem.” In Literatures of War, edited by Richard Pine and Eve Patten, 132-46. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.