- Title
- Imaginary Heaven, African Hell in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
- Author/Creator
- Richard B. Larsen
- Publication Details
- JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, Vol.2(2), pp.45-51
- Annotation
- Argues that the story becomes much darker than conventionally thought when contextualized with African lore. Larsen theorizes that Harry s fate represents an ironic African Hell in which he becomes a hyena, a creature paralleling Harry s greedy and disreputable nature.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015131960203691
Journal article
Imaginary Heaven, African Hell in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, Vol.2(2), pp.45-51
04/01/1997
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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