Title
Dangerous Trips: War Tourism in Willa Cather’s One of Ours and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Comparison study. De Biasio opens by contextualizing Hemingway’s well-known criticism of Cather’s outsider position as a woman writing about war before examining each novel’s use of tourist rhetoric and themes in commemorating World War I. In juxtaposing Claude Wheeler of Cather’s 1922 narrative with Frederic Henry, De Biasio concludes that though both are tourists, Henry’s insider position as an ambulance driver in the Italian army and ultimate rejection of the war mark his experiences as uniquely authentic.
Published in
Harbors, Flows, and Migrations: The USA in/and the World
Date
2017
Pages
163-179
COinS
Citation
De Biasio, Anna. “Dangerous Trips: War Tourism in Willa Cather’s One of Ours and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.” In Harbors, Flows, and Migrations: The USA in/and the World, edited by Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco, and Donatella Izzo, 163-79. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2017.