Hemingway’s Requiem for Battlefields: Atomic Jokes after Hiroshima/Nagasaki in \u3cem\u3eAcross the River and into the Trees\u3c/em\u3e

Draws on Freud’s theory of humor and Hemingway’s casual references to atomic bombs in the novel and elsewhere to trace the author’s evolving attitude toward warfare following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yanagisawa posits that Hemingway’s change in writing style and comic stance found in his cold war novel reflects his recognition of the worthlessness of the battlefield with its shift away from inhumanity to global a-humanity in the atomic age