| This thesis discusses North American Indian matters in Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. Consideration of several key aspects of Indian elements in the Nick Adams Indian fiction suggests that Hemingway was familiar with North American Indian anthropological, ethnographical and historical materials from the Field Columbian Museum of Natural History in Chicago. An examination of "Three Shots" and "Indian Camp," in particular, shows that Hemingway knew Indian materials from James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough. This thesis argues that it is Indian elements which help reveal that Hemingway draws on modernist traditions in writing "Three Shots" and "Indian Camp." In addition, that they re-define several accepted critical assessments of the Nick Adams short fiction. Moreover, examination of Indian matters in "Indian Camp" takes reading to the point where it radically alters the critical understanding of Nick's initiation, his father's role, the Indian husband's suicide, the story's locale, as well as Nick's development. Finally, this thesis illuminates the historical context of the Nick Adams Indian stories. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). |
