<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article dwells on three of Hemingway’s canonical short stories, set in Italy. While not entirely autobiographical, they deal with Hemingway’s inner turmoil caused by his experience during World War I. From its inarticulate nature, pain half emerges into conversations between patients and physicians in A Very Short Story and In Another Country, but disappears into silence in A Way You’ll Never Be. The paper argues that the nature of physical and mental wounds, whether visible or concealed, fails objectification.</p></abstract>

This article dwells on three of Hemingway’s canonical short stories, set in Italy. While not entirely autobiographical, they deal with Hemingway’s inner turmoil caused by his experience during World War I. From its inarticulate nature, pain half emerges into conversations between patients and physicians in A Very Short Story and In Another Country, but disappears into silence in A Way You’ll Never Be. The paper argues that the nature of physical and mental wounds, whether visible or concealed, fails objectification.

Wounded Bodies and Lost Voices in Hemingway’s War Stories of Italy

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This article dwells on three of Hemingway’s canonical short stories, set in Italy. While not entirely autobiographical, they deal with Hemingway’s inner...

Wounded Bodies and Lost Voices in Hemingway’s War Stories of Italy

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 30 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0005

Keywords
colonized subjects, Hemingway, illness narrative, narrative surrender, pain, wounds

© 2019 Gabriela Tucan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Wounded Bodies and Lost Voices in Hemingway’s War Stories of Italy

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 30 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0005

Keywordscolonized subjects, Hemingway, illness narrative, narrative surrender, pain, wounds

© 2019 Gabriela Tucan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
colonized subjects, Hemingway, illness narrative, narrative surrender, pain, wounds