Hemingway and posthumanism edited by Marcos Antonio Norris and Ryan Hediger

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norris, Marcos Antonio, editor.

Hediger, Ryan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hemingway, Ernest.

Posthumanism in literature.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2025]

Summary:

"Ernest Hemingway is often recognised for his contributions to the intellectual and artistic experimentation of his day, including modernism, primitivism, naturalism and creative nonfiction. He has also long been situated in debates about the environment, often receiving criticism for his hunting practices and taken as iconic of an aggressive masculinity. This collection considers another influential artistic and intellectual formation that has particular resonance for reading Hemingway, despite postdating his life by more than a decade: posthumanism. The contributions highlight the many resonances between Hemingway's life and writing and the notions of posthumanism, including, for example: Hemingway’s emphasis on a human creaturely life; his insistence on human participation in genuine ecologies; his use of and writing about technologies and prosthetics (as in cases of injury); and his scepticism about forces of modernity, economic development, labour norms and more. The collection also shows how investigating Hemingway alongside posthumanism can yield new insights about this author and contribute to posthumanist thought and practice"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : Hemingway's proto-posthumanism / Ryan Hediger

"Erosions in a fishless desert" : The Old Man and the Sea as Atomic Parable / Susan F. Beegel

Waste is a humanist fiction : Hemingway, Fishing, and the Problem of a Posthumanist Ecology / John Larison

Death and the "Persevering Traveler" : Reconsidering Posthumanism in Ernest Hemingway's "A Natural History of the Dead" / Raymond Malewitz

Religious atheists : W.H. Hudson, Death, and Posthumanism in The Garden of Eden / Michael Kim Roos

Fathers, lovers, and friend killers : Rearticulating gender and race via species in Hemingway / Cary Wolfe

"Papa, please try to act like a human being" : Moving beyond white masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro / Katie Warczak

Before posthumanism : Indigenous cosmologies in Ernest Hemingway's early writing / Elena Zolotariov

Beyond humanity, beyond race in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden / Marcos Antonio Norris

"Just smell them. Aren't they lovely?" : Olfaction and trans-species imagination in Ernest Hemingway's works / Lay Sion Ng

"The truck had spoiled it" : Hemingway and the Specter of Fossil Capitalism / Megan Cole

Intoxication, posthumanism, and Hemingway : Toward an Ethics of/for Compelling Experience / Ryan Hediger

Dead leaves and wild birds : Reading A Farewell to Arms from a Posthumanist Perspective / Lisa Tyler

Afterword : Following Hemingway through the Bush / Marcos Antonio Norris

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 13, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Hemingway and posthumanism

ISBN:

9781399539630

1399539639

9781399539647

1399539647

OCLC:

1532810862

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