"After You, Baroness!" Ernest Hemingway and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Journal article

Clara Juncker

Hemingway Review, Vol.35(2), pp.87-109

04/01/2016

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Title: "After You, Baroness!" Ernest Hemingway and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Author/Creator: Clara Juncker
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.35(2), pp.87-109
Annotation: Compares Hemingway s life and African writings to Blixen s, noting similarities in craft, subject matter, and theme. Juncker comments on their shared admiration of each other s work, reliance on narrative omission, and debt to C zanne in their literary landscapes. Explores how each author reinvented their identity, focusing specifically on race and gender. Addresses their vision of Africa as a prehistoric retreat away from the stale conventions and restrictions of their European and American environments. Concludes that Hemingway s imperialistic perspective evolved over time while Blixen s remained static. Draws on Hemingway s Green Hills of Africa, Under Kilimanjaro, True at First Light, and Blixen s Out of Africa (1937).
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132198703691