Hemingway's Roadmaps in Cuba: "The Strange Country" as a Postwar Road Narrative

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Several roadmaps in the Hemingway Museum in Havana, which Ernest Hemingway probably used in the 1950s, contain marginalia, such as his name and highlighted travel routes. The markings on the roadmaps appear to allude to Hemingway's Cuba-U.S. driving tours in the 1950s and connect to his nostalgic memory as a writer and father of broken families, in "The Strange Country." Through several similarities with Hemingway's roadmaps in Cuba, "The Strange Country" might be understood as Hemingway's only road narrative.