TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Rooney
PY  - 2026
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034353373
TI  - Hemingway’s Primitivism
T2  - A Quest for Primal Authenticity
DO  - 10.3726/b22283
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1707060
N2  - In this timely book, the author explores new ways of reading Hemingway’s work, considering nature, gender and American identity. Through forensic analysis of Hemingway’s 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, Hemingway’s 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 Hemingway’s quest for primal authenticity, whereby the Other as “savage” is negated by his nuanced understanding of traditions, the author shows how Hemingway’s depictions empower women, challenge white male superiority, and privilege nature. Hemingway’s transatlantic and transcontinental quest for authentic primitivism is also a transnational and transcultural quest, an attempt to understand a more complex version of history.
KW  - Hemingway, Primitivism, Modernism, Native American, American Identity, Race, Gender, Post-Colonialism, liminality, Transcendentalism, Ecocriticism
LA  - English
ER  -