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Ernest Hemingway is often recognised for his contributions to the intellectual and artistic experimentation of his day, including modernism, primitivism, naturalism and creative nonfiction. He has also long been situated in debates about the environment, often receiving criticism for his hunting practices and taken as iconic of an aggressive masculinity. This collection considers another influential artistic and intellectual formation that has particular resonance for reading Hemingway, despite postdating his life by more than a decade: posthumanism. The contributions highlight the many resonances between Hemingway's life and writing and the notions of posthumanism, including, for example: Hemingway's emphasis on a human creaturely life; his insistence on human participation in genuine ecologies; his use of and writing about technologies and prosthetics (as in cases of injury); and his scepticism about forces of modernity, economic development, labour norms and more. The collection also shows how investigating Hemingway alongside posthumanism can yield new insights about this author and contribute to posthumanist thought and practice.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Hemingway's Proto-Posthumanism
Part I. Nature
1. "Erosions in a fishless desert": The Old Man and the Sea as Atomic Parable
Susan F. Beegel
2. Waste Is a Humanist Fiction: Hemingway, Fishing, and the Problem of a Posthumanist Ecology
John Larison
3. Death and the "Persevering Traveler": Reconsidering Posthumanism in Ernest Hemingway's "A Natural History of the Dead"
Raymond Malewitz
4. Religious Atheists: W. H. Hudson, Death, and Posthumanism in The Garden of Eden
Michael Kim Roos
Part II. Animality
5. Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Gender and Race via Species in Hemingway
Cary Wolfe
6. "Papa, please try to act like a human being": Moving Beyond White Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro
Katie Warczak
7. Before Posthumanism: Indigenous Cosmologies in Ernest Hemingway's Early Writing
Elena Zolotariov
8. Beyond Humanity, Beyond Race in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden
Marcos Antonio Norris
9. "Just smell them. Aren't they lovely?": Olfaction and Trans-Species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway's Works
Lay Sion Ng
Part III. Ethics
10. "The truck had spoiled it": Hemingway and the Specter of Fossil Capitalism
Megan Cole
11. Intoxication, Posthumanism, and Hemingway: Toward an Ethics of/for Compelling Experience
Ryan Hediger
12. Dead Leaves and Wild Birds: Reading A Farewell to Arms from a Posthumanist Perspective
Lisa Tyler
Afterword: Following Hemingway through the Bush
Marcos Antonio Norris
Bibliography
Index
