Book contents
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Hemingway in the New Millennium
- Part I The Textual Hemingway
- Part II Identities
- Chapter 6 Family Dynamics and Redefinitions of “Papa”-hood
- Chapter 7 Hemingway and Pleasure
- Chapter 8 Trauma Studies
- Chapter 9 Hemingway and Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Hemingway, Race(ism), and Criticism
- Chapter 11 Still Famous after All These Years
- Part III Global Engagements
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 6 - Family Dynamics and Redefinitions of “Papa”-hood
from Part II - Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2020
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Hemingway in the New Millennium
- Part I The Textual Hemingway
- Part II Identities
- Chapter 6 Family Dynamics and Redefinitions of “Papa”-hood
- Chapter 7 Hemingway and Pleasure
- Chapter 8 Trauma Studies
- Chapter 9 Hemingway and Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Hemingway, Race(ism), and Criticism
- Chapter 11 Still Famous after All These Years
- Part III Global Engagements
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In “Family Dynamics and the Re-definitions of Papa-hood,” Suzanne del Gizzo tracks the construction of Hemingway’s famous “Papa” persona and the way, especially since the end of the twentieth century, scholars and critics have explored how the assumption his parternal if not paternalistic image may have been rooted in vulnerability and anxiety about masculinity – and indeed about identity more broadly – that began in the author’s childhood and extended into his public and private performances of “Papa”-hood into his adulthood, performances further complicated by a rapid decline in health and mental well-being in his fifties. Del Gizzo observes that the issue of “Papa”-hood is found at a busy intersection of Hemingway scholarship, where biography, psychoanalytic criticism, trauma studies, masculinity studies, and clinical assessments of the author’s mental health issues converge. Informed by developments in our understanding of the impact of mental health on family life, the essay surveys biographical criticism and literary scholarship related to representations of fathers and sons in Hemingway’s work.
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- The New Hemingway Studies , pp. 99 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020