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Hemingway and Posthumanism

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Published/Copyright: 2025

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Examines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism

  • Presents Hemingway as posthumanist, challenging the standard view that Hemingway was either a secular humanist or a Christian humanist
  • Delivers unprecedented interpretations of Hemingway and his works
  • Opens fresh paths of inquiry for scholars and students and empowers a new area of study to flourish
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.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

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    Acknowledgments

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    Notes on Contributors

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    Introduction: Hemingway’s Proto-Posthumanism

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    Ryan Hediger
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  • Part I: Nature
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    Chapter 1 “Erosions in a fishless desert”: The Old Man and the Sea as Atomic Parable

    25
    Susan F. Beegel
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    Chapter 2 Waste Is a Humanist Fiction: Hemingway, Fishing, and the Problem of a Posthumanist Ecology

    48
    John Larison
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    Chapter 3 Death and the “Persevering Traveler”: Reconsidering Posthumanism in Ernest Hemingway’s “A Natural History of the Dead”

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    Raymond Malewitz
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    Chapter 4 Religious Atheists: W. H. Hudson, Death, and Posthumanism in The Garden of Eden

    78
    Michael Kim Roos
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  • Part II: Animality
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    Chapter 5 Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Gender and Race via Species in Hemingway

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    Cary Wolfe
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    Chapter 6 “Papa, please try to act like a human being”1: Moving Beyond White Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro

    131
    Katie Warczak
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    Chapter 7 Before Posthumanism: Indigenous Cosmologies in Ernest Hemingway’s Early Writing

    148
    Elena Zolotariov
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    Chapter 8 Beyond Humanity, Beyond Race in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden

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    Marcos Antonio Norris
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    Chapter 9 “Just smell them. Aren’t they lovely?”: Olfaction and Trans-Species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway’s Works

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    Lay Sion Ng
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  • Part III: Ethics
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    Chapter 10 “The truck had spoiled it”: Hemingway and the Specter of Fossil Capitalism

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    Megan Cole
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    Chapter 11 Intoxication, Posthumanism, and Hemingway: Toward an Ethics of/for Compelling Experience

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    Ryan Hediger
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    Chapter 12 Dead Leaves and Wild Birds: Reading A Farewell to Arms from a Posthumanist Perspective

    246
    Lisa Tyler
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    Afterword: Following Hemingway through the Bush

    262
    Marcos Antonio Norris
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    Bibliography

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    Index

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9781399539630
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Keywords for this book
Ernest Hemingway; posthumanism; ecocriticism; animal studies; Anthropocene; humanism
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