Title
When the Liminal Becomes the Center: The Case of Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Begins by defining the intermediate or transitional nature of liminality, and then applies that critical lens to Hemingway’s creation of liminal space through language and genre. Mandel discusses Hemingway’s technique of hybridization (blending English with Spanish or Italian) to create simultaneously a sense of the foreign and familiar in several texts, including “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Che Ti Dice la Patria,” “The Capital of the World,” and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also examines Hemingway’s blending of multiple genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drawing) in a single work such as Death in the Afternoon. Concludes by examining the liminality of three short stories, “Out of Season,” “Cat in the Rain,” and “Hills Like White Elephants.”
Published in
Liminal Poetics
Volume
7
Date
2008
Pages
41-62
Citation
Mandel, Miriam B. “When the Liminal Becomes the Center: The Case of Ernest Hemingway.” Liminal Poetics 7 (2008): 41-62.