- Title
- Memorial Landscapes: Hemingway s Search for Indian Roots
- Author/Creator
- Philip Melling
- Publication Details
- Hemingway and Africa, pp.239-272
- Annotation
- Examines Hemingway s lifelong fascination with primitive modernism, tracing his interest in African tribal customs and religions to his early experience with the Indian tribes of northern Michigan. Discusses Hemingway s exploration of spiritual practices, totemic places, and the sacredness of the hunt in Under Kilimanjaro, connecting Hemingway s past landscapes, especially swamps, with those of Africa. Melling also discusses Hemingway s restrictive relationship with wife Mary that prevented his full immersion in tribal life and connects his African wife Debba to his first sexual encounter with Prudence Boulton. Melling writes: Africa is a way of going back home to an imagined past, and once discovered this childhood past offers him entry to a tribal landscape and personal atonement for the sins of his nation.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136385503691
Book chapter
Memorial Landscapes: Hemingway s Search for Indian Roots
Hemingway and Africa, pp.239-272
2011
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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