The Challenging of Gender and Sexual Politics in Ernest Hemingway's Works
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Goodman, Noah Maddux
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Since the publication of his first novel, Ernest Hemingway has been deemed the “masculine
hero” of the American literary canon. However, with the posthumous publication of <i>The Garden
of Eden</i> in 1986, critics and scholars have made great efforts in re-analyzing his works in effort
to extract a deeper level of understanding towards Hemingway’s ideologies towards gender and
sexuality. In spite of his overtly masculine image, Hemingway was deeply intrigued by the idea
of challenging conventional gender and sexual norms. Along with this, Hemingway is interested
in the interplay between gender and trauma, as nearly all of his gender-bending characters suffer
from traumatic experiences. By analyzing some of Hemingway’s most popular short stories and
novels ranging from his first works to his last, we can see how Hemingway’s ideas towards
gender and sexuality change over the course of his career.