Title Hemingway and the Black Renaissance / edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) Contents A shared language of American modernism : Hemingway and the Black Renaissance / Mark P. Ott -- Hemingway's lost presence in Baldwin's Parisian room : mapping Black Renaissance geographies / Joshua Parker -- Hemingway and Wright, Baldwin and Ellison / Charles Scruggs -- Knowing the recombining : Ellison's ways of understanding Hemingway / Joseph Fruscione -- Free men in Paris : the shared sensibility of James Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway / Quentin Miller -- Hemingway and McKay, race and nation / Gary Edward Holcomb -- Cane and In our time : a literary conversation about race / Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland -- Rereading Hemingway : rhetorics of whiteness, labor, and identity / Ian Marshall -- "Across the river and into the trees, I thought" : Hemingway's impact on Alex la Guma / Roger Field Summary "Hemingway and the Black Renaissance ... explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingway's wide-ranging influence on writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present day. An observable who's who of black writers--Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Chester Himes, Alex la Guma, Derek Walcott, Gayl Jones, and more--cite Hemingway as a vital influence. This inspiration extends from style, Hemingway's minimalist art, to themes of isolation and loneliness, the dilemma of the expatriate, and the terrifying experience of living in a time of war. The relationship, nevertheless, was not unilateral, as in the case of Jean Toomer's 1923 hybrid, short-story cycle Cane, which influenced Hemingway's collage-like 1925 In Our Time." "Just as important as Hemingway's influence, indeed, is the complex intertextuality, the multilateral conversation, between Hemingway and key black writers. The diverse praises by black writers for Hemingway in fact signify that the white author's prose rises out of the same intensely American concerns that their own writings are formed on: the integrity of the human subject faced with social alienation, psychological violence, and psychic disillusionment. An understanding of this literary kinship ultimately initiates not only an appreciation of Hemingway's stimulus but also a perception of an insistent black presence at the core of Hemingway's writing"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Influence Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Influence Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 fast Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 gnd Subject Harlem Renaissance -- Influence American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Harlem renaissance Harlem Renaissance. Genre/Form essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays Literary criticism Literary criticism. Essays. Critiques littéraires. Essais. Form Electronic book Author Scruggs, Charles, editor. Holcomb, Gary Edward, editor. ISBN 9780814270431 0814270433

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