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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’.

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

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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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...

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

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 65 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0008

Keywords
America, cultural representation, Hemingway, Otherness, Orientalism

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 65 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0008

KeywordsAmerica, cultural representation, Hemingway, Otherness, Orientalism

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
America, cultural representation, Hemingway, Otherness, Orientalism