A Study of Hegemony in Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa

Abstract

Hemingway'sGreen Hills of Africarepresents Africa as the place of domination. African people are under thedomination throughconsent-hegemony. To explore the African diversities Hemingway uses his hunting memory of being in Africa. The way of representing Africa by employing hunting, keeping friendly relation with native people, isthe issue to convey a sense of hegemony. In Africa, in his hunting project, Hemingway indicates that Africa is the proper place for hunting to hegemonize it. While dealing with African people,itsgeography he invents certain issue of domination to conceptualize everything of Africa in easy manner. To give the sense of domination, Hemingway uses the words i.e. savage, uncivilized, bloody, hell, son of bitch, lier and so on to enhance hismotifwith hegemony. This representative desire of representing Africais the appetite of unquenchable hegemony by Hemingway himself.