- Title
- The One-Man Show: Greene, Hemingway, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the End of the Interwar Period
- Author/Creator
- Emily O. Wittman
- Publication Details
- Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, pp.151-176
- Annotation
- Compares Green Hills of Africa with Graham Greene's contemporaneous African book, Journey Without Maps (1936), within each "travel in Africa is cast as an opportunity to peek at a collective, if ultimately illusory, past." While recognizing aesthetic and strategic differences in the two authors, Wittman finds a "similar admixture of appropriative rhetoric, personal revelation, and confident cultural analysis" and "seemingly paradoxical conformity to a romantic primitivism that is constituted, in part, by adherence to notions of racial superiority." Also discusses the writers' relative personal foregrounding in each book as important strategies to discuss notions of home, migration, authority, language, interactions with natives, and, ultimately, the meaning of authenticity and what constitutes a "true" story.
- Publisher
- Amherst College Press; Amherst
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015211981203691
Book chapter
The One-Man Show: Greene, Hemingway, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the End of the Interwar Period
Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing, pp.151-176
Amherst College Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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