4: Canonical Readings: Baudelaire’s Subtext in Hemingway’s African Narratives

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. A Note on the Texts xv
6. Hemingway’s African Narratives xvii
7. Hemingway in Africa: Chronology xxi
8. Introduction 1
9. I: Knowing What Hemingway Knew
10. 1: Hemingway’s Reading in Natural History, Hunting, Fishing, and Africa 41
11. 2: Ernest Hemingway on Safari: The Game and the Guns 85
12. 3: “Love is a dunghill. . . . And I’m the cock that gets on it to crow”: Ernest Hemingway’s Farcical Adoration of Africa 122
13. II: Approaches to Reading
14. 4: Canonical Readings: Baudelaire’s Subtext in Hemingway’s African Narratives 151
15. 5: Tracking the Elephant: David’s African Childhood in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden 176
16. 6: An Elephant in the Garden: Hemingway’s Africa in The Garden of Eden Manuscript 199
17. 7: Between Ngàje Ngài and Kilimanjaro: A Rortian Reading of Hemingway’s African Encounters 212
18. III: On Religion and Death
19. 8: Memorial Landscapes: Hemingway’s Search for Indian Roots 239
20. 9: Hemingway’s African Book of Revelations: Dawning of a “New Religion” in Under Kilimanjaro 273
21. 10: Barking at Death: Hemingway, Africa, and the Stages of Dying 299
22. IV: What Others Have Said
23. 11: On Safari with Hemingway: Tracking the Most Recent Scholarship 323
24. Contributors 385
25. Index 389