The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises

• Authors: Mădălina Borcău
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper will deal with the problematics of cultural self-representation in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I shall approach this theme by applying concepts from Edward Said’s Orientalism and Jean Baudrillard’s America to Hemingway’s novel and discussing the limitations of such theories which - it will be argued - oversimplify the issue by reducing it to an opposition between ‘Self’ and ‘Otherness’.

Keywords

EN

America; cultural representation; Hemingway; Otherness; Orientalism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-70

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Mădălina Borcău

• University of Bucharest

References

• Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. America. London: Verso.
• Brooks, Peter. 1998. Reading for the Plot. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
• Hemingway, Ernest. 1995. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner.
• Kaminsky, Amy. 2008. Argentina: Stories for a Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Kristeva, Julia. 1982. Powers of Horror. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Partridge, Eric. 1992. Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Lanham, Maryland: Scarborough House.
• Traber, Daniel S. 2012. “Whiteness and the Rejected Other in The Sun Also Rises”. Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’: New Edition. Harold Bloom (Ed.). New York: Infobase, pp.123-140.
• Said, Edward W. Orientalism. 1979. New York: Vintage.[PubMed]

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0008