Title
"Torquere": Stein’s and Hemingway’s Queer Relationality
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Drawing on transgender theory in her study of Stein’s life and work, Coffman examines the impact Stein’s masculine homosocial bonds with other modernist artists and authors had on her transmasculinity. Chronicles Stein and Hemingway’s complex and turbulent relationship, beginning with their initial 1922 meeting in Paris; charts the range of Hemingway’s ambivalent feelings toward his old mentor from desire and admiration to jealousy and hostility. Devotes considerable attention to their memoirs and poetry as responses to and revisions of their fraught relationship, including Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and “The Soul of Spain” and Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), “Objects Lie on a Table,” “He and They, Hemingway,” “Evidence,” and “Genuine Creative Ability.”
Published in
Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity
Date
2018
Pages
200-250
Citation
Coffman, Chris. “‘Torquere’: Stein’s and Hemingway’s Queer Relationality.” In Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity, 200-50. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.