Hemingway Ecology and Culture

<b>The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.</b><br/><b><br/></b>Hemingway's ecological perspective is often overlooked in his work. This book expands on emerging scholarship, exploring Hemingway's non-anthropocentric view of non-human entities to offer fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in his long-length fiction such as <i>The Sun Also Rises</i>,<i> A Farewell to Arms</i>,<i> For Whom the Bell Tolls</i>, <i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> and<i> The Garden of Eden</i>, as well as short stories like <i>The Snows of Kilimanjaro</i>,<i> Big Two-Hearted River</i> and <i>A Natural History of the Dead</i>.<br/><br/>Through a multidisciplinary lens-including material ecocriticism, eco-gothic, posthumanism, light/colour ecology, olfactory discourse, environmental history, and cultural ecology-Ng challenges the notion of Hemingway as merely a hyper-masculine figure. Instead, she reveals his texts as "ecological forces" that can heighten our awareness of nonhuman agency, leading us to understand our own place in this interconnected world.<br/><br/><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by</i><i>Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective</i>