Hemingway's two extended African safaris, the first in the 1930s and the second in the 1950s, gave rise to two of his best-known stories ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"), a considerable amount of journalism and correspondence, and two nonfiction books, Green Hills of Africa (1935), about the first safari, and True at First Light (1999; longer version, Under Kilimanjaro 2005), about the second. Africa also figures largely in his important posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986). The variety and quantity of this literary output indicate clearly that Africa was a major factor in the creative life of this influential American author. But surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work. To start the long-delayed conversation on this topic, this book offers historical, theoretical, biographical, theological, and literary interpretations of Hemingway's African narratives. It also presents a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology of the safaris, a complete bibliography of Hemingway's published and unpublished African works, an up-to-date, annotated review of the scholarship on the African works, and a bibliography of Hemingway's reading on natural history and other topics relevant to Africa and the world of the safari. Contributors: Silvio Calabi, Suzanne del Gizzo, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Jeremiah M. Kitunda, Kelli A. Larson, Miriam B. Mandel, Frank Mehring, Philip H. Melling, Erik G. R. Nakjavani, James Plath, and Chikako Tanimoto. Miriam B. Mandel is retired as Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Miriam B. MandelHemingway's Reading in Natural History, Hunting, Fishing, and Africa - Miriam B. Mandel and Jeremiah KitundaErnest Hemingway on Safari: The Game and the Guns - Silvio Calabi"Love is a dunghill. . . . And I'm the cock that gets on it to crow": Hemingway's Farcical Adoration of Africa - Jeremiah KitundaCanonical Readings: Baudelaire's Subtext in Hemingway's African Narratives - Beatriz Penas IbanezTracking the Elephant: David's African Childhood in Hemingway's The Garden of Eden - Suzanne del GizzoAn Elephant in the Garden: Hemingway's Africa in The Garden of Eden Manuscript - Chikako TanimotoBetween Ngàje Ngài and Kilimanjaro: A Rortian Reading of Hemingway's African Encounters - Frank MehringMemorial Landscapes: Hemingway's Search for Indian Roots - Philip H. MellingHemingway's African Book of Revelations: Dawning of a "New Religion" in Under Kilimanjaro - Erik NakjavaniBarking at Death: Hemingway, Africa, and the Stages of Dying - James PlathOn Safari with Hemingway: Tracking the Most Recent Scholarship - Kelli A. LarsonNotes on the ContributorsIndex
