All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway

Journal article

Ellen Lansky

English Language Notes, Vol.60(1), pp.139-149

2022

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Title: All Aboard: Reading, Writing, and Drinking with Ernest Hemingway
Author/Creator: Ellen Lansky
Publication Details: English Language Notes, Vol.60(1), pp.139-149
Annotation: As a result of personal experience in teaching "Hills Like White Elephants," Lansky posits that the story is one less about abortion and more about alcohol in the lives and behaviors of the two characters. Revisits her schoolgirl experiences with Hemingway, followed by her awakening amidst feminist readings of his fiction in the 1980s, the attraction of drinking-oriented literature, and her own experience with alcoholism. Suggests that in the blurring boundary between fiction and life, Hemingway offered a kind of invitation to his readers to become "drinking buddies," prompting a century of tourism, and, for the author, a wrestling with the consequences—for Hemingway and for her.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015212019203691