Hemingway’s Primitivism: A Quest for Primal Authenticity

di Peter Rooney (Autore)

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2026

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.

• Autore: Peter Rooney
• Editore: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Collana: Modern American Literature
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 483 gr.
• EAN: 9783034353366

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