Title
"All the People in the Ring Together": Hemingway, Performance, and the Politics of the Corrida
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Connects Hemingway’s fascination with bullfighting to his broader performative representations of masculinity and national identity. Linking the patriotic idealism of the soldier to the sacrifice and ritual of the corrida, Barnes concludes, “Hemingway’s writing sees a continuity between the types of community fostered by war and those created within the culture of bullfighting.” Locates Hemingway’s position within American modernism’s preoccupation with national identity and Spain’s cultural and political efforts to promote a national vision following World War I. Draws frequently on The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, and In Our Time.
Published in
Modernist Cultures
Volume
11
Issue
1
Date
2016
Pages
26-47
Citation
Barnes, David. “‘All the People in the Ring Together’: Hemingway, Performance, and the Politics of the Corrida.” Modernist Cultures 11, no. 1 (2016): 26-47.