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Article: Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction.(Book review)
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction. By Amy L. Strong. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 174 pp. Cloth $74.95.
Amy L. Strong's Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction, a part of Palgrave Macmillan's series "American Literature Readings in the 21st Century," is a self-proclaimed "revisionist" reading of Hemingway's work. One of Strong's primary ideas is that Hemingway wrote about race and sexual identity throughout his career and that posthumously published works have provided a catalyst for scholars to acknowledge the fact. Hemingway scholarship, Strong maintains, has for too long focused on themes such as courage, love, and war, while not enough has been ...