Title
Race and Modernity in Theodore Roosevelt’s and Ernest Hemingway’s African Travel Writing
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Compares Roosevelt’s African Game Trails (1910) to Hemingway’s later Green Hill of Africa, suggesting that both authors’ imperialistic views of Africa represent a time of “escape from modernity.” Notes their feelings of white superiority in their treatment of African primitivism.
Published in
Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement
Date
2002
Pages
13-27
COinS
Citation
Whitley, Edward. “Race and Modernity in Theodore Roosevelt’s and Ernest Hemingway’s African Travel Writing.” In Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement, edited by Kristi Siegel, 13-27. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.