"You Know the Name is No Accident": Hemingway and the Matter of Santiago

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H. R. Stoneback

Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works, pp.165-179

2013

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Title: "You Know the Name is No Accident": Hemingway and the Matter of Santiago
Author/Creator: H. R. Stoneback
Publication Details: Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works, pp.165-179
Annotation: Analyzes the underlying meaning of Santiago s name in The Old Man and the Sea, arguing that his origin in the Canary Islands, the Isles of the Blessed, indicates his symbolic immortality. Using Hemingway s personal relationship with the Catholic pilgrimage site of the same name, Stoneback draws attention to qualities of St. James of Compostela found in Santiago s character and places the novella within the tradition of pilgrimage narrative. Calls The Old Man and the Sea a complex study of saintliness that aims to reconstruct a version of the historical saint as a pilgrim and undefeated fisherman rather than as an apostle.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136370303691