Hemingway, Race, and Art
Bloodlines and the Color Line
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: The Kent State University Press
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Title Page, Copyright Page
contents
Introduction: The Specter of Race in Hemingway’s Grave New World
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pp. 1-26
The specter of race can be a wondrously terrifying thing. Ernest Hemingway certainly thought so, as did his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. But you would not know that judging by the dearth of related critical material on each artist. Like a ghost, that dark specter played on their minds for years, and for . . .
Chapter One: “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”: Deconstructing the Great (White) Man
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pp. 27-50
Hemingway’s inquisitive ways were with him since youth. The spaces in and around the Indian camp captured and held the author’s imagination throughout his life, and appropriately, they make up an extensive part of his ethnic writing for much of his early career. He had begun exploring these wild . . .
Chapter Two: Beyond the Camp, Behind the Myth: Native American Dissolution and Reconstituted Whiteness in “Ten Indians,” “Fathers and Sons,” and “The Indians Went Away”
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pp. 51-67
So far, we have seen Hemingway explore and dispel the myth of racial primacy by delving into the depths of the gray spaces between red and white. Woods, water, and gate worked well as spatial separators between civilized and savage. If the camp stories exploit difference along general primitive lines, . . .
Chapter Three: The Truth’s in the Shadows: Race in “The Light of the World” and “The Battler”
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pp. 69-89
In the summer of 1908, up became down, black became white, and the world as many knew it changed forever. In that year, Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing world champion. Some seven years later, Johnson would lose that title to the last of several so-called great white . . .
Chapter Four: Killin’ ’Em with Kindness: Hemingway’s Racial Recognition in “The Porter”
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pp. 91-110
Ernest Hemingway had seen the world in shades of black and white long before his first African adventures of 1933–34. As a boy, he’d dreamed of following in the footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt on a trek to the African continent. A few years later, he had watched with great interest as a young African . . .
Chapter 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
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pp. 111-135
Africa: a single word with a multiplicity of associations. The continent’s image is a virtual Rorschach test, a polarizing form of black and white. Since childhood, Africa had always been a place of high adventure and imaginative wandering for Hemingway. Theodore Roosevelt—president, paragon of . . .
Chapter 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
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pp. 137-158
“ . . . Almost nothing was true and especially not in Africa”: so begins Hemingway’s True at First Light, the first incarnation of his final African safari memories. But the very opposite is correct too; for the experimental aesthete, almost everything is true, it seems, and especially in Africa. In his last fictionalized . . .
Epilogue: Contextualizing Hemingway’s: Grand Complication
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pp. 159-163
Hemingway once said that a writer’s job is not to say what is on his mind but to write it (Nobel Prize in Literature Banquet Speech 1954). His oeuvre stands as a clear testament to his investment in this credo and as a fantastic example of what was on his mind for much of his literary career: masculinity, nationality, and race . . .
Notes
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pp. 165-185
Works Cited
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pp. 187-192
Index
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pp. 193-197
Back Cover
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p. 198-198
E-ISBN-13: 9781612775418
E-ISBN-10: 1612775411
Print-ISBN-13: 9781606350928
Page Count: 160
Publication Year: 2011
