In his attempts to create a language and form that ‘‘flow,’’ Miller reveals how nationalism, economic strictures, and literary conventions promote hoarding, create conflicts, and mask the experience of everyday life. In his depiction of prostitution and embodied transactions, Miller offers alternate modes of circulation and currency, which challenge existing economic structures and literary genres and the ways they regulate and reify conventional values. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934) provides a unique modernist representation of the economic warfare of the Great Depression, as evident in Miller’s claims for ‘‘going off the gold standard.’’ This essay explores what such claims reveal about the connections between economic regimes and the symbolic structures which underpin both cultural production and the experience of everyday life. This article interrogates the tension between stable and unstable identities in theories of sexualities, primarily using "queerings" of Miller as a case study Despite scholarly failures to notice the overtly queer content of the novel and (even more provocatively) despite queerings of the text that oddly reinforce heterosexist presumption, Miller explicitly endorses and implicates himself in discourses of queerness. Miller has been repeatedly portrayed as the epitome of stereotypical Western masculine heterosexuality, and most forcefully so in queer readings of 'Tropic of Cancer.' I contend something different. Yet, the homoerotic nature of this dialogue is overlooked.
Whatever we might make of the "numinous" nature of the phallus on the book cover, Miller's sexuality is on display as he and Durrell are photographed bathing in the Ionian Sea, and this display continues in his writing.
Needless to say, it is the third that not only rivets attention, but commands nostalgia and, well, let us be honest, pity and awe" (11). shows three protagonists sprawled in a shallow wine-dark sea - Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, and Henry Miller's numinous cock.
In 1988, Gore Vidal reviewed a new edition of the Durrell-Miller Letters, noting "The dust-jacket.
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