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Reading desire : in pursuit of Ernest Hemingway

Author: Debra Moddelmog
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"Moddelmog interrogates Hemingway's persona and work to show how our perception of the writer is influenced by society's views on knowledge, power, and sexuality. She believes that recent attempts to reinvent Hemingway as man and as artist have been circumscribed by their authors' investment in heterosexist ideology; she seeks instead to situate Hemingway's sexual identity in the interface between homosexuality and  Read more...
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Named Person: Ernest Hemingway; Ernest Hemingway; Ernest Hemingway; Ernest Hemingway
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Debra Moddelmog
ISBN: 0801436044 9780801436048 0801486351 9780801486357
OCLC Number: 41231624
Description: xiii, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Debra A. Moddelmog.

Abstract:

"Moddelmog interrogates Hemingway's persona and work to show how our perception of the writer is influenced by society's views on knowledge, power, and sexuality. She believes that recent attempts to reinvent Hemingway as man and as artist have been circumscribed by their authors' investment in heterosexist ideology; she seeks instead to situate Hemingway's sexual identity in the interface between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Moddelmog looks at how sexual orientation, gender, race, nationality, able-bodiedness--and the intersections of these elements--contribute to the formation of desire. Ultimately, she makes a far-reaching and suggestive argument about multiculturalism and the canons of American letters, asserting that those who teach literature must be aware of the politics and ethics of the authorial constructions they promote." (Publisher's Web page).

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