Aestheticized Slavery: Blackamoor Jewelry in Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees

Journal article

Lisa Tyler

Arizona Quarterly, Vol.78(4), pp.29-53

2022

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Title: Aestheticized Slavery: Blackamoor Jewelry in Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees
Author/Creator: Lisa Tyler
Publication Details: Arizona Quarterly, Vol.78(4), pp.29-53
Annotation: Illuminates in great depth the many ways to read and contextualize Cantwell's gift to Renata in Across the River and into the Trees—a pin depicting a bejeweled and turbaned Black figure. Above all, Tyler writes, the object heightens readers' awareness that this is a novel of whiteness and within it Hemingway "aestheticizes slavery." Notes, for example, that one can find "fifty references to blackness and darkness" in the novel, that Hemingway had a fascination with Shakespeare's Venice-set "Othello," and that the years leading up to Hemingway's composition of the novel witnessed several important milestones along the path of civil rights progress in the U.S.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015211981403691