New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of
Africa in Hemingway's life and work.
Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the
second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The
Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a
considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two nonfiction
books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first safari, and True at
First Light (1999; longer version, Under Kilimanjaro 2005), about the
second.Africa also figures largely in his important posthumous novel The
Garden of Eden (1986). The variety and quantity of this literary output
indicate clearly that Africa was a major factor in the creative life of
this influential American author. But surprisingly little scholarship
has been devoted to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. To
start the long-delayed conversation on this topic, this book offers
historical, theoretical, biographical, theological, and literary
interpretations of Hemingway's African narratives. It also presents a
wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology of the safaris, a
complete bibliography of Hemingway's published and unpublished African
works, an up-to-date, annotated review of the scholarship on the African
works, and a bibliography of Hemingway's reading on natural history and
other topics relevant to Africa and the world of the safari.
Contributors: Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez,
Jeremiah M. Kitunda, Kelli A. Larson, Miriam B. Mandel, Frank Mehring,
Philip H. Melling, Erik G. R. Nakjavani, James Plath, and Chikako
Tanimoto.
Miriam B. Mandel is retired as Senior Lecturer in the Department of
English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University.
