![]() ![]() ![]() McCullers turns the army into a grotesque site of alternative masculinities and seething homoeroticism. Set in a traditionally male domain of a military post, the novel explores the tensions and ambivalence inherent in apatriarchal culture’s reification of manhood. global power is the strange presence of the Filipino houseboy, who alerts us to the more disturbing aspects of American invasions into the international sphere. One of the essential clues to McCullers’s awareness of the imperialist expansion of U.S. However, I argue that this paradigmatic use of southern regionalism as the singular model to interpret her novel is inadequate and ignores the transnational imaginary of the story. Because of the novel’s shocking homosexual theme, critics tend to read it as McCullers’s inheritance of the Gothic school of southern writing. This paper examines Carson McCullers’s second novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye, a strange tale that received accusations of morbidity when it was published in 1941. ![]()
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