'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' as an Allegory of the Anthropocene

Journal article

Ryan Hediger

Hemingway Review, Vol.41(1), pp.8-27

10/01/2021

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Title: 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' as an Allegory of the Anthropocene
Author/Creator: Ryan Hediger
Publication Details: Hemingway Review, Vol.41(1), pp.8-27
Annotation: This essay reads Hemingway's short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" as an allegory of the Anthropocene. The story presents an effort to rethink how to live, a concern that animated much of Hemingway's writing and thinking. This rethinking involves dramatically exposing the faults of the narrator, who, read allegorically-in a general, not strict, way-evokes many of the values and systems of production that led to the Anthropocene. Thus, the narrator's self-critique can also be read as a cultural critique, one sharpened and fitted to Anthropocene temporalities by the story's "telescoping" technique.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015130952803691