Title
Across the Canal and Into Kansas City: Hemingway’s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and Into the Trees
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Analysis of the novel’s symbolic landscape, providing a close reading of Cantwell’s imaginary road trip from Kansas City to reveal a religious subtext of absolution and rebirth. Nickel connects Cantwell’s need for atonement with the personal horrors Hemingway experienced during World War II, contending that “Kansas City may serve in Hemingway’s memory and imagination as a point of return and renewal.”
Date
2014
Pages
324-349
COinS
Citation
Paul, Steve, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout, eds. War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.