Title
Fat Words, Fat Souls: Momaday, Hemingway, and the Nature of Truth
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Draws on Julia Kristeva’s theories of language to read N. Scott Momoday’s House Made of Dawn (1968) as a response to the thematic interplay of truth and language found in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Bain contends that both works express the written word’s potential for conveying and corrupting truth; however, in Hemingway’s story language exists largely to hide truth while in Momaday’s novel the word exists as truth, and is thus capable of generating truth.
Published in
CEA Critic
Volume
75
Issue
3
Date
2013
Pages
303-309
COinS
Citation
Bain, Grant. “Fat Words, Fat Souls: Momaday, Hemingway, and the Nature of Truth.” CEA Critic 75, no. 3 (Nov. 2013): 303-9.