Title
Reading for the Complot
Document Type
Essay
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
COinS
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.