The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

Death by Drowning: Trauma Theory and Islands in the Stream

Author

Kim Moreland

Document Type

Book Chapter

Citation

Grimes, Larry and Bickford Sylvester, eds. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.

Annotation

Posits that reading Islands in the Stream through the lens of trauma theory enables readers to understand and sympathize with its unlikable and critically neglected protagonist, Thomas Hudson. Moreland demonstrates how use of twinning in the narrative merges the novel’s four instances of drowning into a single event, recalling Hudson’s own primary trauma. Concludes that Islands in the Stream is a story of both Hudson’s and Hemingway’s traumas.

Date

2013

Pages

213-228

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