Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner

Lecture Details

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock introduces the class to Hemingways novel To Have and Have Not, which originally appeared as a series of short stories in Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines. She focuses on Hemingways designation of taxanomic groups ("types") by race, class, and sexuality, arguing that Hemingways switch of narrative perspectives throughout the course of the novel casts every character, even protagonist Harry Morgan, as a classifiable kind of human being. In her treatment of types, she shows how Hemingway draws thematic parallels between seemingly disparate racial types, complicating the dualism of "to have" and "have not" that appears in the title.Warning This lecture contains graphic content andor adult language that some viewers may find disturbing0000 - Chapter 1. Hemingway in Havana0459 - Chapter 2. Publication History of To Have and Have Not0740 - Chapter 3. Interconnections Between the Novels So Far1059 - Chapter 4. Taxonomic Groups ("Types") in To Have and Have Not1645 - Chapter 5. Racism in To Have and Have Not2320 - Chapter 6. Harry Mogans Verbal Tic, "Some"3142 - Chapter 7. Harry Morgan as a Type3916 - Chapter 8. Symmetries between Harry and Other "Types"4539 - Chapter 9. The Celebrated Concept of the CojonesComplete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpoyc.yale.eduThis course was recorded in Fall 2011.