Hemingway and Posthumanism

Marcos Antonio Norris is a lecturer in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University. He is the author of Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God (2023) and the co-editor of Agamben and the Existentialists (2021). Norris has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles, most recently including 'Reading ‘On the Quai at Smyrna’ and ‘A Natural History of the Dead’ in Consideration of Hemingway’s Anti-Humanism' with The Hemingway Review and 'Francis Macomber, the Matador: Reading Hemingway’s ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’' with Studies in the American Short Story. Ryan Hediger is Professor and Undergraduate Studies Coordinator in the English department at Kent State University. He is the author of Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment (2019), the editor of Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene (2023), the editor of Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America (2013) and the co-editor of Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (2009). Hediger has authored more than twenty peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Hemingway, ecocriticism, and animal studies, most recently including '‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ as an Allegory of the Anthropocene' in The Hemingway Review and 'Becoming with Animals: Sympoiesis and the Ecology of Meaning in London and Hemingway' in Studies in American Naturalism.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Hemingway’s Proto-Posthumanism, Ryan HedigerPart I. Nature1. "Erosions in a fishless desert": The Old Man and the Sea as Atomic ParableSusan F. Beegel2. Waste Is a Humanist Fiction: Hemingway, Fishing, and the Problem of a Posthumanist EcologyJohn Larison3. Death and the "Persevering Traveler": Reconsidering Posthumanism in Ernest Hemingway’s "A Natural History of the Dead"Raymond Malewitz4. Religious Atheists: W. H. Hudson, Death, and Posthumanism in The Garden of EdenMichael Kim RoosPart II. Animality5. Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Gender and Race via Species in HemingwayCary Wolfe6. "Papa, please try to act like a human being": Moving Beyond White Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Under KilimanjaroKatie Warczak7. Before Posthumanism: Indigenous Cosmologies in Ernest Hemingway’s Early WritingElena Zolotariov8. Beyond Humanity, Beyond Race in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of EdenMarcos Antonio Norris9. "Just smell them. Aren’t they lovely?": Olfaction and Trans-Species Imagination in Ernest Hemingway’s WorksLay Sion NgPart III. Ethics10. "The truck had spoiled it": Hemingway and the Specter of Fossil CapitalismMegan Cole11. Intoxication, Posthumanism, and Hemingway: Toward an Ethics of/for Compelling ExperienceRyan Hediger12. Dead Leaves and Wild Birds: Reading A Farewell to Arms from a Posthumanist PerspectiveLisa TylerAfterword: Following Hemingway through the BushMarcos Antonio NorrisBibliographyIndex

Rarely do you find a breakthrough anthology. This is one. Norris and Hediger provide a lucid introduction to posthumanism. They assemble a diverse collection of fine essays which demonstrate the relevance and freshness of this approach to both Hemingway the man and his works.