Title
Hemingway’s Primal Scene
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Explores Hemingway’s ambiguous attitude toward traditional primitivism, showing that he embraced both its chronological and cultural modes, yet remained skeptical about the categorical significance of race. Pavloska focuses on the expression of primitivism in “Indian Camp” and “Fathers and Sons” as realistic and idealistic portrayals of natives, perhaps signifying Hemingway’s attempts at self-definition through his experiences with Native Americans.
Published in
Modern Primitives: Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neal Hurston
Date
2000
Pages
55-73
COinS
Citation
Pavloska, Susanna. “Hemingway’s Primal Scene.” In Modern Primitives: Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neal Hurston, 55-73. New York: Garland, 2000.