One True Podcast took the occasion of Toni Morrison\u2019s death to consider the way race emerges as a key factor in Hemingway\u2019s writing. In this episode, we turn to one of the most prominent Hemingway scholars on this issue, North Carolina State\u2019s Marc Dudley.
During the interview, Dudley reflects on Morrison\u2019s searing criticisms of Hemingway\u2019s treatment of minority characters, and extends his thoughts to consider how other ethnicities \u2013 such as Native Americans \u2013 function in Hemingway\u2019s work. Hemingway emerges both as a writer of his time, with all of its limitations and prejudices, and also as a man of sensitivity and deep insight. Our conversation on Hemingway and race is a timely one, asking the question: how do Hemingway\u2019s depictions of race look through twenty-first-century eyes?
This episode was recorded on October 18, 2019.