THE GENDERED CONSTRUCTION OF MASOCHISM IN HEMINGWAY.

Ernest Hemingway remained faithful to a wide range of traditional masculine values in his life and his fiction. He was a propagator of the normative roles assigned by the patriarchal system on men and women and accordingly distinguished between male and female social and artistic functions; however, the tension in his behavioral patterns is expressed through his subversion of those ascriptions on the sexual level. The themes of homoerotic wishes, suppressed femininity and transvestic impulses have well been established in Hemingway's fiction through years of literary criticism; however, the masochistic undertones of his writings have not received an equal attention so far. The purpose of this paper is to underline the masochistic properties of Hemingway's psychosexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]