Book contents
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Hemingway in the New Millennium
- Part I The Textual Hemingway
- Part II Identities
- Chapter 6 Family Dynamics and Redefinitions of “Papa”-hood
- Chapter 7 Hemingway and Pleasure
- Chapter 8 Trauma Studies
- Chapter 9 Hemingway and Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Hemingway, Race(ism), and Criticism
- Chapter 11 Still Famous after All These Years
- Part III Global Engagements
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 11 - Still Famous after All These Years
Ernest Hemingway in the Twenty-First Century
from Part II - Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2020
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Hemingway Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction Hemingway in the New Millennium
- Part I The Textual Hemingway
- Part II Identities
- Chapter 6 Family Dynamics and Redefinitions of “Papa”-hood
- Chapter 7 Hemingway and Pleasure
- Chapter 8 Trauma Studies
- Chapter 9 Hemingway and Queer Studies
- Chapter 10 Hemingway, Race(ism), and Criticism
- Chapter 11 Still Famous after All These Years
- Part III Global Engagements
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In “Still Famous after All These Years: Ernest Hemingway in the Twenty-First Century,” Loren Glass offers a humorous overview of the way that Hemingway’s name has been franchised and flogged over the past two decades to sell an innumerable amount of products. He notes lawsuits that caused restaurants to change their name from Hemingway’s to Hemmingway’s to capitalize upon the writer’s appeal and catalogues the various tourist stops, from Ketchum Idaho to Key West Florida and Havana Cuba, that cash in on Hemingway’s fame. For Glass, commercial exploitation is no different than the scholarly commodification of the writer that has accelerated with the opening of various archives and museums over the past twenty years, as well as the Hemingway Letters Project, which ensures his pluripresence in American popular culture. Glass also notes how suicide and the struggles of fame have become a consistent narrative, leading to celebrity becoming a metatextual phenomenon in which people become famous for dramatizing their struggles with fame.
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- The New Hemingway Studies , pp. 176 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020