Homo americanus
Subtitle: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and queer masculinities
By: John S. Bak.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838642542
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, -- 1899-1961; Williams, Tennessee, -- 1911-1983; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Williams's cat and Hemingway's sun: queerly masculine; title: Sun also sets: Jake Barnes, impotence, and sexual existenialism; title: Dying gaul: the signifying phallus and Williams's Three players of a summer game; title: Sneakin an' spyin from broadway to the beltway: cold war masculinity, brick, and homosexual existentialism; title: Impotence of being Ernest: Scott and Hemingway's gender trouble in Williams's Clothes for a summer hotel.