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Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation

Bosse, Walter M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533155

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2014, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
This project redresses the scarcity of literary criticism that deals with the fictions of Ernest Hemingway in relation to black cultural productions of the twentieth century. Building from a postcolonial theoretical framework, it establishes a historicized dialogue in which African-American authors such as Langston Hughes and James Baldwin strategically confront, appropriate, and repurpose Hemingway’s modernist narratives. This dialogue dramatizes my conviction that black writers of the Harlem Renaissance and post-Renaissance decades were tactically reading and resisting Modernism’s central texts in ways that can be seen to anticipate critical deconstruction. Reading Hemingway through minority discourse thus gives this project a new purchase on his aesthetic choices, at the same time that it complicates and augments existing theories about influence, ingenuity, and power in twentieth-century African-American literature.
Beth Ash, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Stanley Corkin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Alison Rieke, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
162 p.
American Literature
Ernest Hemingway; Langston Hughes; James Baldwin; race; modernism; appropriation

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  • Bosse, W. M. (2014). Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533155

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bosse, Walter. Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533155.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bosse, Walter. "Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533155

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