Whether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of
machismo, or perceived as possessing complex androgynous
characteristics, Ernest Hemingway is acknowledged to be one of the
most important twentieth-century American novelists. For Debra A.
Moddelmog, the intense debate about the nature of his identity
reveals how critics' desires give shape to an author's many guises.
In her provocative book, 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.
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