{"id":57935,"date":"2019-04-18T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57935"},"modified":"2019-06-04T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:35:50","slug":"liana-by-martha-gellhorn-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57935","title":{"rendered":"Liana by Martha Gellhorn (1944)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liana<\/strong> by Martha Gellhorn (1944)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Literary Ladies Guide: Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors<\/a>
\n2018-11-25<\/p>\n

Taylor Jasmine<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Liana<\/a><\/p>\n

Martha Gellhorn<\/a> was married to Ernest Hemingway<\/a> when Liana<\/em><\/a>, her fifth novel, was published in 1944. She had already made quite a name for herself as a war correspondent by that point and it rankled her to be described as \u201cMrs. Ernest Hemingway\u201d in reviews of her books.<\/p>\n

Though her fiction varied in its quality and critical acclaim, her book of linked stories titled The Trouble I\u2019ve Seen<\/em><\/a> (1936), based on her actual observations as a journalist during the Depression<\/a>, earned her a great deal of respect.<\/p>\n

Her brief marriage to Hemingway was already in jeopardy the year that Liana appeared. In her capacity as a war correspondent, Gellhorn wanted to cover the action, wherever it happened to be…<\/p>\n

…The story centers on Liana, who is described as a mulatto<\/a>, or what we now call mixed-race. She marries Marc Royer, a wealthy white man on a fictional French Caribbean<\/a> island called Saint Boniface.<\/p>\n

For his part, he marries her mainly to spite another woman, and so, Liana is marked by a kind of tragedy in this sense, becoming a prisoner in his home, and a partner to a man who doesn\u2019t fully love her…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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