Title
Short Happy Palimpsest: Ernest Hemingway’s "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Considers the influence of Hemingway’s short story on the Dominican American author’s 2007 transnational novel, exploring Díaz’s responses to and revisions of his predecessor’s story line, style, and treatment of ethnicity, identity, masculinity, and colonialism. Hellman concludes that Díaz’s engagement in intertextual dialogue with the literary giant marks his resistance to the colonizing force of the white American canon.
Published in
Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature
Date
2019
Pages
66-87
COinS
Citation
Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin. “Short Happy Palimpsest: Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” In Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature, 66-87. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2019.