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Toward a Politics of Cure: Jake Barnes\u27s Embracing of Otherness in The Sun Also Rises
No full textThe Sun Also Rises represents a case study for the relationship between socio-cultural stereotypes and disability studies. Focusing on Jake Barnes\u27s restoration of health, this essay suggests that Jake\u27s self-mastery is accomplished through his submission to the cultivations he embarks upon during the fishing experience in Bayonne, the bullfight in Pamplona, and his solo trip to San Sebastian. Through Jake, readers encounter the importance of embodiment and emplacement, that bodily restoration is in conjunction with ecological restoration. Jake\u27s case further calls attention to a politics of cure that encourages the construction of environments whereby all forms of masculinity, physicality, and mental health are embraced
Travel and Imperialist Nostalgia in Ernest Hemingway\u27s Green Hills of Africa
No full textCritical survey aligned with Edward Said\u27s ideas of colonialism and imperialism in global travel by westerners. Suggests that despite Hemingway\u27s professed comfort with the continent in his memoir, he served the interests of colonial powers by writing about Africa from a limited and manipulated perspective. Hemingway\u27s paradoxical regard for wilderness and problematic observations of African people amount to an imperial nostalgia
Why Things Happen and Why They Don\u27t: Causality and Contingency in \u27The Snows of Kilimanjaro\u27 and \u27One Reader Writes
No full textThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and One Reader Writes, although very different in their reception histories, nevertheless share a crucial verbal and thematic parallel: each story contains similarly worded speculation on how a particular illness (gangrene and syphilis, respectively) came to be contracted. By wondering whether or not the illness in question had to happen, Helen and the unnamed Reader invite broader consideration of causality and contingency. In the case of Snows, this inquiry into contingency pertains also to Harry\u27s concerns as to why he failed to write the stories that he might have written
The Book of Tobit in Middle English Sermons: Sarah, Her Eight Husbands, and the Sin of Lust
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