- Title
- Exposing the Secret: Hemingway's Authentic Spain
- Author/Creator
- Emily O. Wittman
- Publication Details
- Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, pp.59-84
- Annotation
- Rejects early criticism of Death in the Afternoon that it was a departure from Hemingway's fiction and instead links it to The Sun Also Rises especially via its shared "anticipatory nostalgia" for the waning tradition of bullfighting. In an extensive reading of Death in the Afternoon, the author examines Hemingway's identity with Spain and use of its language, his assumed authority and conflicting messages as a reputed guide to and instructor in the spectacle of bullfighting, his criticism of American tourists, his "aggressive rejection of readers," his often-provocative opinions on writers and writing, death and killing, and homosexuality, and, ultimately, the qualities of afición.
- Publisher
- Amherst College Press; Amherst
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015212018803691
Book chapter
Exposing the Secret: Hemingway's Authentic Spain
Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, pp.59-84
Amherst College Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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