
Title
Looking for a Place to Land: Hemingway’s Ghostly Presence in the Fiction of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Influence study on how each author adapted Hemingway’s existential theme of “a man alone” in their post-Harlem Renaissance writings. Scruggs focuses on their efforts to define their own independent places in American fiction through revision of Hemingway’s themes of violence, loneliness, and search for refuge found in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “The Killers,” In Our Time, A Farewell to Arms, and To Have and Have Not.
Published in
Date
2012
Pages
55-77
Citation
Holcomb, Gary Edward and Charles Scruggs, eds. Hemingway and the Black Renaissance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.