The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Race and Modernity in Theodore Roosevelt’s and Ernest Hemingway’s African Travel Writing

Document Type

Essay

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.

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

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