Dr. Charles Scruggs - Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and the Modernist Movement

Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and the Modernist Movement presented by Charles Scruggs of the Department of English.
Hemingway's brilliant, post-World War I story articulates themes that already haunted the modern world, themes that would find their way into Edward Hopper's paintings. Hopper admired Hemingway, as did Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison, two famous African-American writers who celebrated the "Blues" as both survival manual and a philosophy of life. Both Murray and Ellison saw Hemingway's fiction as part of a blues tradition, one that, as Hemingway said in "The Sun Also Rises," require that we hold the "purity of line through the maximum of exposure."
Charlie Scruggs is a professor of American literature at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) and Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). He is coauthor of Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). He is a co-author (with Gary Holcomb) of a forthcoming book on Hemingway's influence on African-American writers of the twentieth century (Ohio State University Press). He has also written articles on film noir and on Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, George Orwell and Carl Van Vechten, as well as on African-American writers: Phillis Wheatley, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, Walter Mosley, and Toni Morrison.

Friday, October 21
Part of Humanities Week 2011

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