Resolving Tensions in The Garden of Eden: Determining Hemingway’s Final Dilemma
The concept of sex/gender as a binary set lies at the heart of The Garden of Eden, along with Hemingway’s life-long fascination with the possibilities of shift in gender and with sex. The question of male identity and the crisis in masculinity seems to have been evolved into the broader question...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jhss.ro/downloads/20/articles/4.pdf |
| Summary: | The concept of sex/gender as a binary set lies at the heart of The Garden of
Eden, along with Hemingway’s life-long fascination with the possibilities of
shift in gender and with sex. The question of male identity and the crisis in
masculinity seems to have been evolved into the broader question of gender
identity and gender crisis. The significance of the theme of androgyny in The
Garden of Eden lies in the fact that it accentuated the issue of sex, gender and
sexuality not in one single novel to which it belonged; rather, the structure of
the book echoes through and affects our general understanding of
Hemingway’s entire oeuvre. In this novel, the traditional masculine voice lying
latent in Hemingway’s psyche surfaces and functions in favor of the masculine
authority. This has been part of the unresolved dilemma within Hemingway for
long. He had stored it within him and has expressed it on various other
occasions. The present paper undertakes to resolve the long-debated tension
regarding Hemingway’s gender dilemma in The Garden of Eden. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-6557 2247-2371 |