Title
Hemingway’s War
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Pedagogical approach inviting students to become active translators of Hemingway’s language experiments in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Valis reads the novel as cross-cultural, arguing that “Hemingway’s use of language (both English and Spanish) highlights a complex interplay between insider-outsider cultures, some, but not all, of which the novelist was acutely aware.” Because of the inherent bias of translation, Valis warns of the dangers of reading the novel’s depiction of the Spanish conflict as anything other than the author’s.
Published in
Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War
Date
2007
Pages
258-266
COinS
Citation
Valis, Noël. “Hemingway’s War.” In Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, edited by Noël Valis, 258-66. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2007.