
Title
Knowing and Recombining: Ellison’s Ways of Understanding Hemingway
Document Type
Book Chapter
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.
Published in
Date
2012
Pages
78-119
Citation
Holcomb, Gary Edward and Charles Scruggs, eds. Hemingway and the Black Renaissance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.