Word: forhemingway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics like Chinua Achebe, theNigerian author of Things Fall Apart, whois comfortable addressing Hemingway's stylisticcontributions to literature even while expressinghis disinterest in Hemingway's subject matter,because Achebe feels the content of the work hasno particular relevance to him as an African.Finally, there are those whose distaste forHemingway as a person forces them pastdisinterest--which, of course, functions nearly aswell as absolute antipathy in terms of its effectson Hemingway's legacy--into resentment and anger:take for example the nature writer Sue Hubbell,who in one of the Centennial Conference's moreridiculous moments scolded Hemingway, "You don'tdeserve...
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