Publisher's Synopsis
The ecological dimensions of Ernest Hemingway's work are often overlooked in much of the criticism on him. This book contributes to a growing body of work on this aspect of Hemingway's oeuvre, focusing on his unique perspective on nature and providing fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters.
Through close readings of Hemingway's long-length fiction (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Garden of Eden, Islands in the Stream), his short stories (The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Big Two-Hearted River, A Natural History of the Dead), and his nonfiction (Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa), this book challenges preconceptions of Hemingway as a hyper-masculine "papa".
Ng provides new insights into Hemmingway's humanity, and shows how he foregrounds the voices and narratives of nonhuman entities using the lenses of disability studies, light/color ecology, soil ethics, environmental history, the eco-gothic, olfactory discourse, posthumanism, and cultural ecology.
