The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Knowing and Recombining: Ellison’s Ways of Understanding Hemingway

Document Type

Book Chapter

Citation

Holcomb, Gary Edward and Charles Scruggs, eds. Hemingway and the Black Renaissance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.

Annotation

On Hemingway’s intellectual and stylistic influence on Ellison. Fruscione draws on biography, correspondence, and published materials to reconstruct Ellison’s ambivalent attitude toward his “literary ancestor.” Discusses Ellison’s criticism of Hemingway’s lack of racial awareness and moral exploration in “The Battler,” “The Killers,” To Have and Have Not, and elsewhere.

Date

2012

Pages

78-119

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