Citation

Cain WE. Prose Studies 2015; 37(2): 128-148.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015)

DOI

10.1080/01440357.2015.1084711

PMID

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Abstract

Ernest Hemingways Green Hills of Africa, based on his November 1933-March 1934 safari to Kenya and Tanganyika, and published in October 1935, is often overlooked, even by many Hemingway scholars, and it is not widely read or taught. But it is a crucial book for our understanding of this brilliant, tortured writer. In Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway constructs a portrait of himself that is radically disturbing. As much or more than anything he wrote, it reveals the ongoing challenge we face in coming to terms with Hemingway as he represents himself in his work - how best to approach and interpret him, how to describe him as a literary fact and presence. © 2015 © 2015 Taylor & Francis.

Language: en

Keywords

violence; suicide; Africa; death; Hemingway; travel writing