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Article: Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.(Book review)
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- The Hemingway Review
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- March 22, 2006
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Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism. By Richard Fantina, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 206 pp. $65.00.
For nearly three decades, scholars have been busy rethinking how masculinity operates in Hemingway's life' and work, replacing the celebrated macho persona with a Hemingway motivated by various psychosexual desires. Yet, as Richard Fantina argues in his important new book Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism, "[a]lthough many critics now readily dismiss the old Hemingway myth of machismo, few seem prepared to acknowledge the masochism that prevails in much of his work" (1). Fantina's book aims to redress this critical oversight, making the case ...