- Title
- Alienation and Resistance in Hemingway's "After the Storm": The Other Side of "Big Two-Hearted River"
- Author/Creator
- Lisa NarbeshuberLance La Rocque
- Publication Details
- Hemingway Review, Vol.44(2), pp.42-57
- Annotation
- This essay argues that Hemingway's short story "After the Storm" (1932) maps out the dehumanizing landscape shaped by modern capitalism, contrasting sharply with the utopian resistance of Hemingway's earlier story, "Big Two-Hearted River." Utilizing Georg Lukác's concept of "reification," the analysis highlights the destructiveness of a generalized commodification and its impact on social relations. While critics tend to focus on the sponger as an individual (embodying the 'hero code,' or exemplifying depravity), the essay shifts the focus to the structuring forces of the social world, analyzing the sponger as a contradictory site of the social matrix. Finally, "After the Storm," while bleak, nevertheless depicts important moments of resistance.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015417572303691
Journal article
Alienation and Resistance in Hemingway's "After the Storm": The Other Side of "Big Two-Hearted River"
Hemingway Review, Vol.44(2), pp.42-57
2025
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