Title
"How the Weather Was": Anthropogenic Climate Change and Environmental Damage in Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Sociohistorical study of Hemingway’s nonfiction narrative as an ecological lament to the catastrophic effects of modernism on the environment, linking the despoilment of East Africa by whites of European ancestry to the devastation of the American Great Plains by farmers during the Dust Bowl. Tyler focuses on Hemingway’s treatment of such environmental problems as drought, soil erosion, and excessive consumption of limited resources, connecting Western men’s irresponsible pursuit of animals with their endless and self-destructive pursuit of masculinity, resulting in irreversible harm to the continent’s fragile environment. Concludes that while not an ecologist, Hemingway’s narrative of his first safari provides insight into his gradual realization of his own complicity in damaging the continent he loved.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
37
Issue
1
Date
Fall 2017
Pages
36-54
Citation
Tyler, Lisa. “‘How the Weather Was’: Anthropogenic Climate Change and Environmental Damage in Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa.” Hemingway Review 37, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 36-54.