Title
Hemingway’s Lost Presence in Baldwin’s Parisian Room: Mapping Black Renaissance Geographies
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Influence study of Baldwin’s adaptation of Hemingway’s map of Paris from The Sun Also Rises as a model for Giovanni’s Room (1956). Parker focuses on geographical direction, symbolic place names, and themes of homosexuality and isolation to argue that expatriate authors projected their own psychological struggles onto foreign settings.
Published in
Date
2012
Pages
38-54
COinS
Citation
Holcomb, Gary Edward and Charles Scruggs, eds. Hemingway and the Black Renaissance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.