'He Felt the Change So That It Hurt Him All Through': Sodomy and Transvestic Hallucination in Late Hemingway

This article calls attention to a pattern of heterosexual sodomy in four late Hemingway texts to explain the psychological mechanics of the gender transformations experienced by the male protagonists of these novels. The article suggests that these protagonists experience a sort of bodily hallucinat...

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Published in:The Hemingway review 2005-09, Vol.25 (1), p.77-95
Main Author: Eby, Carl P
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This article calls attention to a pattern of heterosexual sodomy in four late Hemingway texts to explain the psychological mechanics of the gender transformations experienced by the male protagonists of these novels. The article suggests that these protagonists experience a sort of bodily hallucination, for which sodomy functions as a catalyst, and which amounts to nothing less than a sort of "psychotic flash" within the context of an otherwise "perverse" psychology. The paper then uses this framework to briefly link gender to trauma theory in Hemingway studies and theorize why eroticism is so much more overt and transgressive in late, as opposed to early, Hemingway.
ISSN:0276-3362
1548-4815
1548-4815
DOI:10.1353/hem.2006.0008