The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Reading for the Complot

Author

David Kelman

Document Type

Essay

Citation

Kelman, David. “Reading for the Complot.” In Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas, 17-48. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Annotation

Applies Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia’s narrative theory of conspiracy to Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” and Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo (1972), arguing that each work contains a “complot,” the presence of a second, hidden story beneath the surface story. Kelman compares the complot to Hemingway’s iceberg theory and describes how it arises for Nick Adams as the unnamable unknown of the swamp.

Published in

Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas

Date

2012

Pages

17-48

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