Title
"After You, Baroness!" Ernest Hemingway and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Compares Hemingway’s life and African writings to Blixen’s, noting similarities in craft, subject matter, and theme. Juncker comments on their shared admiration of each other’s work, reliance on narrative omission, and debt to Cézanne in their literary landscapes. Explores how each author reinvented their identity, focusing specifically on race and gender. Addresses their vision of Africa as a prehistoric retreat away from the stale conventions and restrictions of their European and American environments. Concludes that Hemingway’s imperialistic perspective evolved over time while Blixen’s remained static. Draws on Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa, Under Kilimanjaro, True at First Light, and Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937).
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
35
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2016
Pages
87-109
Citation
Juncker, Clara. “‘After You, Baroness!’ Ernest Hemingway and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen).” Hemingway Review 35, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 87-109.