Finding Masculinity in the "Great War": An Analytical Study of A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry

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1 Department of English language and Literature/ faculty of women/ Ain Shams University/ / Cairo / Egypt

2 English department/ Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education, Ain Shams University

3 Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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Finding Masculinity in the "Great War":
An Analytical Study of A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry

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This paper intends to show the relation between war and masculinity, through drawing a sketch of the masculine identity of the soldiers during the First World War (also known as the Great War). It studies the association between “ideal manhood” and wartime duties. The paper travels though the experience of Willie Dunne, a young Irish soldier in A Long Long Way (2005) by the Irish writer, Sebastian Barry. Through the paper, the researcher traces the social and familial pressures that lead Willie to enlist in the army, and to experience the atrocities of the First World War in order to search for his masculinity. Raywne Connell's concept of “hegemonic masculinity” is used to investigate how masculinity is represented in the selected novel and how war is considered a masculine field where society in general and parents in particular, push their sons to enlist in order to become real men.

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Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Social Sciences & Humanities
March 2022
Pages 67-89

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