Why is Robert Cohn a “Writer”?: “University,” “Race,” and “Blood” in America in the Early 20th Century

なぜロバート・コーンは「作家」なのか：二〇世紀初頭のアメリカにおける「大学」、「人種」、「血」

Why is Robert Cohn a “Writer”?: “University,” “Race,” and “Blood” in America in the Early 20th Century

Creators Yoshio Nakamura

Why does Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises have to be a “writer”? This question deeply concerns not so much an individual vocational propensity as a racial deterministic “bloody” fate. Such racial determinism was largely alleged from a scientific racism in conspiracy with such sciences as biology and genetics at that time. Yet although some scholars so far have pointed to Hemingway’s anti-semitism described in the novel, such scientific racism, which is smuggled into dictions and representations in the novel, has rarely been spotlighted. The following paper tries to detect such a faint noise of the “bloody” science of race in representations of a Jew, Robert Cohn in the novel.

[ISSN]0386-4359

[NCID]AN00019833