Title
Ellison’s Hemingways
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Exploration of Hemingway’s influence on Ellison’s development as a critical reader and writer. Hochman studies Ellison’s marginalia on “Remembering Shooting-Flying” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” arguing that “Ellison’s relationship to ‘technique’ was constantly evolving, and the intellectual contexts shaping his understandings of ‘race’ and ‘literature’ were constantly shifting.” Concludes that Ellison’s vision of Hemingway depended on his own developing aesthetics and ideologies.
Published in
African American Review
Volume
42
Issue
3-4
Date
2008
Pages
513-532
COinS
Citation
Hochman, Brian. “Ellison’s Hemingways.” African American Review 42, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2008): 513-32.