- Traveling Writers: Literary Dreams of Tropical Escape
- Blake C. Scott
- Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism, pp.111-134
- Describes how Hemingway's contributions of travel-oriented columns and articles helped put Esquire magazine on the map in the 1930s as a journal appealing to masculine self-identity and leisure. Hemingway helped foster the allure of foreign travel among the upper class and general wanderers, but also among creative writers, who furthered a culture of tourism. With Hemingway's resettling in Key West and travels to Cuba, the chapter focuses first on the experience of Arnold Samuelson as an early example of a tourist under his influence. The scope expands to consider travel literature by others, analyses of Hemingway's work in the context of white privilege and imperialism, and contrasting though complicated and usually non-lucrative examples of writers of color, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, who also traveled and reflected on the Caribbean region.
- Cornell University Press; Ithaca, NY
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Book chapter
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