Hemingway on Politics and Rebellion [Paperback]

Hemingway has been labeled a communist sympathizer, elitist, and a rugged individualist. This volume embraces the complexity of political advocacy in Hemingways novels and short stories. Hemingways characters physically, intellectually and spiritually become part of resisting current conditions and affirm the value of resistance, even destruction, regardless of political outcome. Much more than political nihilism, rebellion allows man to realize the potentialities of his greatness as a leader, the realities of his solidarity as a comrade, and the simple sensations of everyday living. Hemingway draws new perspectives on the meaning of politics in our own lives at the same time as his writings affirm boundaries of political thought and literary theory for explaining many of the themes we study.

Part I: Introduction  1. The Rebel: Hemingway and the Struggle Against Politics  Lauretta Conklin Frederking  Part II: Hemingway in Liberal Times  2. Hemingway on Being in Our Time  Catherine Zuckert  3. Hemingway, Hopelessness, and Liberalism  William Curtis  Part III: The Politics of Morality, Manliness, and God  4. Ethics Without Theodicy in Ernest Hemingways A Farewell to Arms  Sayres Rudy  5. Manly Assertion  Harvey Mansfield  6. Hemingway, Religion, and Masculine Virtue  Joseph Prudhomme  Part IV: The Impossibility of Politics  7. Hemingways For Whom the Bell Tolls: Rebellion and the Meaning of Politics in the Spanish Civil War  Kerstin Hamann  8. The Revolutionist   David Winston Conklin  9. To Have and Have Nl#(