White Male Disability in Modernist Literature

Reading Lawrence, Hemingway, and Faulkner
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52007-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 233, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

This study explores the representation of disability in three of the most well-known novels of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926), and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929). By signifying cultural demise and a loss of masculinity, white male disability in the literature of the 1920s represents a fear of a foundering patriarchal, white supremacist world order. However, if we take seriously what queer and disability studies have advanced, disabled bodies in literature can also help us redefine life and love in the modern era: forcing us to imagine possibilities outside of our comfort zones, they help us reimagine the elusive myth of independent, self-sufficient human existence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kübler, Martina Simone

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Martina Kübler studied English and Economics in Heidelberg, Athens, GA and Munich. She obtained her PhD in English and American literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany in 2020. Her research interests include disability, gender, and queer studies, modernism, globalization, and autobiography. She co-edited the volume The Pleasures of Peril: Re-reading Anglophone Adventure Fiction with Tobias Döring.