![]() ![]() KEY WORDS: Africa, Sexuality, Identity, Boundaries, ColonialismĮrnest Hemingway and Karen Blixen, better known as Isak Dinesen in the English-speaking world, never met, but they knew of one another. Tire African continent provided both authors with a space for activities, relationships, and inspiration that allowed for reinvention of identities away from family histories, conventional sexuality, bourgeois restrictions, and cultural boundaries. ![]() The landscape and its people stamped itself on their literary imaginations, imbued with painterly visions indebted to Cezanne. ![]() But they had read each other, and both had been touched by Africa, where they moved in the same circles. Ernest Hemingway and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) never met, though they both coveted the Nobel Prize in 1954, the year Hemingway deservedly won it. ![]()
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