Homo Americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities

by John S. Bak

Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises and Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This book explores the two works many sociopolitical, literary, and intertextual ties, in particular how the conclusion of one echoes that of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611474299
• ISBN13: 9781611474299
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"