Hemingways Primitivism eBook

In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingways work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingways fiction, the author traces his early experiences of post-frontier America and the decline of the American primitive. He shows how, based on actual experience, Hemingways unique brand of primitivism later influences his travels in both Spain and Africa. Each source of primal inspiration: the American Indian, the Spanish corrida and the African safari influences the other in a tripartite primitivism. By illuminating Hemingways quest for primal authenticity, whereby the Other as savage is negated by his nuanced understanding of traditions, the author shows how Hemingways depictions empower women, challenge white male superiority, and privilege nature. Hemingways transatlantic and transcontinental quest for authentic primitivism is also a transnational and transcultural quest, an attempt to understand a more complex version of history.