Hemingway, race, and art : bloodlines and the color line / Marc K. Dudley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dudley, Marc K., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner s racial concerns but extended them beyond the South to encompass the entire nation. Though Hemingway wrote extensively about Native Americans and African Americans, always in the back of his mind was Africa. Dudley sees Hemingway s fascination with, and eventual push toward, the African continent as a grand experiment meant to both placate and comfort the white psyche, and to challenge and unsettle it, too. Twentieth-century white America was plagued by guilt in its dealings with Native Americans; simultaneously, it faced an increasingly dissatisfied African American populace. Marc Kevin Dudley demonstrates how Hemingway s interest in race was closely aligned to a national anxiety over a changing racial topography. Affected by his American pedigree, his masculinity, and his whiteness, Hemingway s treatment of race is characteristically complex, at once both a perpetuation of type and a questioning of white self-identity. Hemingway, Race, and Art expands our understanding of Hemingway and his work and shows how race consciousness pervades the texts of one of America s most important and influential writers.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Specter of Race in Hemingway's Grave New World

One - "Indian Camp" and "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife": Deconstructing the Great (White) Man

Two - Beyond the Camp, Behind the Myth: Native American Dissolution and Reconstituted Whiteness in "Ten Indians," "Fathers and Sons," and "The Indians Went Away"

Three - The Truth's in the Shadows: Race in "The Light of the World" and "The Battler"

Four - Killin' 'Em with Kindness: Hemingway's Racial Recognition in "The Porter"

Five - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and Green Hills of Africa: (Re)drawing the Color Line, or Reimagining the Continent in Shades of Black and White

Six - The First Shall Be Last, the Last Shall Be First: Erasing and Retracing the Color Line in "The Good Lion," True at First Light, and Under Kilimanjaro

Epilogue: Contextualizing Hemingway's Grand Complication

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2013).

ISBN:

1-61277-541-1

OCLC:

809317549