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Fathers, Fathering, and FatherhoodTommy Paved the Way

Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood: Tommy Paved the Way [When Corky’s mother passed, his father, cousin Cayo, and great uncle Tommy raise him. The sensitive, precocious boy is perceived as hopelessly effeminate and his father won’t have it. Cayo, who moves in to nurse the dying mother, mentors Corky’s intellectual growth, then becomes a Minnesota farmer transforming Corky into a farmhand. When his father dies, Corky goes to live with his Tía Tacha and her flamboyant brother, Tommy, whose friend is Colonel Frank Dixon. Both, now openly queer, served courageously during World War II. Corky loves and admires Tommy for his fearless approach to life, camp humor, and honest acceptance of his sexuality. His father, Cayo, and Tommy each taught Corky something—to act like a man, think rationally, and be true to his gay self.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Fathers, Fathering, and FatherhoodTommy Paved the Way

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Del Castillo, Adelaida R.; Güido, Gibrán
Frausto, Robert Jude
Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood — Apr 30, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-60876-7
Pages
63 –77
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-60877-4_7
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Abstract

[When Corky’s mother passed, his father, cousin Cayo, and great uncle Tommy raise him. The sensitive, precocious boy is perceived as hopelessly effeminate and his father won’t have it. Cayo, who moves in to nurse the dying mother, mentors Corky’s intellectual growth, then becomes a Minnesota farmer transforming Corky into a farmhand. When his father dies, Corky goes to live with his Tía Tacha and her flamboyant brother, Tommy, whose friend is Colonel Frank Dixon. Both, now openly queer, served courageously during World War II. Corky loves and admires Tommy for his fearless approach to life, camp humor, and honest acceptance of his sexuality. His father, Cayo, and Tommy each taught Corky something—to act like a man, think rationally, and be true to his gay self.]

Published: Apr 30, 2021

Keywords: Catholicism; Effeminate boyhood; Fathering; Kin relations; Masculinity; Queer veterans

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