Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity

Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway's life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the creative impulse and the dynamics of identity formation in Hemingway. Building on a body of wound-theory scholarship, the book seeks to reconcile the tensions between opposing Hemingway camps, while moving beyond these rivalries into a broader analysis of the relationship between trauma, identity formation and art in Hemingway.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Entering the Garden: The Genealogy of a Reading. - Chapter 2: Eden and its Discontents. - Chapter 3: The Mother of Invention: The Birth of the Twin. - Chapter 4: Sisters of the Forest. - Chapter 5: The Forest of Four Wounds: Hemingway and the Sawyer s Daughter. - Chapter 6: As One Animal of the Forest:

The Last Good Country

of Sibling Eros. - Chapter 7: The Father of the Forest: Identity Formation and Hemingway s Naturalist Calling. - Chapter 8: An Uncanny Genealogy: Agassiz, Roosevelt, and Pound. - Chapter 9: A Father s Fall from Grace. - Chapter 10: The Rise of the Old Brute. - Chapter 11: Tabula Fabulas: Re-Reading Hemingway s First Narratives.