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The ecological dimensions of Ernest Hemingway''s work are often overlooked in much of the criticism on him. This book contributes to a growing body of work on this aspect of Hemingway''s oeuvre, focusing on his unique perspective on nature and providing fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters. Through close readings of Hemingway''s long-length fiction ( The Sun Also Rises , A Farewell to Arms , For Whom the Bell Tolls , The Old Man and the Sea , The Garden of Eden , Islands in the Stream ), his short stories ( The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Big Two-Hearted River , A Natural History of the Dead ), and his nonfiction ( Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa ), this book challenges preconceptions of Hemingway as a hyper-masculine "papa". Ng provides new insights into Hemmingway''s humanity, and shows how he foregrounds the voices and narratives of nonhuman entities using the lenses of disability studies, light/color ecology, soil ethics, environmental history, the eco-gothic, olfactory discourse, posthumanism, and cultural ecology.>
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Rereading Hemingway in the Anthropocene
Part I: Earth
1 The 'Rotten' Matter in A Farewell to Arms
2 The 'Roaring' Earth in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Part II: Air
3 The Ecology of Colors in The Old Man and the Sea
4 Olfactory Ethics in For Whom the Bell Tolls and Other Works
Part III: Water
5 The Ecology of Death in 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' and 'A Natural History of the Dead'
6 The Politics of Cure in The Sun Also Rises
Part IV: Fire
7 Fire Ecologies in 'Big Two-Hearted River'
8 The Elephant's Eye and the Maji-Maji War in The Garden of Eden
Conclusion: Hemingway, Ecology and Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Lay Sion Ng is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the English Literature Department at Sophia University, Japan.
