| Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Strong, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403972052 ISBN-13: 9781403972057 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: This book offers a revisionist reading of Ernest Hemingway's work and shows how this "classic" white male author was in fact deeply engaged with issues of race and racial difference as a defining element of American identity. Strong argues that Hemingway took pains throughout his life to complicate his own and his characters' racial identities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.74" W x 8.33" (0.69 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color, performance of racial identity, and experimentation and immersion in tribal life and rituals. This study imagines what Hemingway s fiction would look like if his non-white characters were brought out of the background and asks how Hemingway s conception of American identity transforms when it is constructed on the basis of race. |