Title
Imaginary Heaven, African Hell in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Document Type
Article
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.
Published in
JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts
Volume
2
Issue
2
Date
Spring 1997
Pages
45-51
COinS
Citation
Larsen, Richard B. “Imaginary Heaven, African Hell in ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’” JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 2, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 45-51.