Abstract
Fifteen years after her death, Martha Gellhorn remains a highly complex, even contradictory figure.1 One of the first female warcor-respondents, during her lifetime she was better known for her five-year marriage to Ernest Hemingway, which she always lamented, than for her long career as a writer. Only recently has she been increasingly recognized as one of the best and most experienced war journalists of her time, covering such varied conflicts as the Spanish Civil War, the D-Day Landings at Normandy, the displacement of the Arabs by the creation of Israel after World War II, or the United States invasion of Panama in 1989, when she was already 81. Indeed, Hemingway himself, whom she met in Spain while he was also a correspondent, seemed to be envious of her job as a reporter. During World War II, for example, he decided to offer himself to Collier’s, the magazine that had been hers since 1937, knowing that a magazine was allowed only one front-line correspondent. “Therefore,” Martha complained, “I was totally blocked … having taken Collier’s he automatically destroyed my chance of covering the fighting war [in an official capacity]” (Kert 392).2 KeywordsBlack WomanSexual HarassmentWoman WriterRacial BoundaryColonial RelationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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