AMST 246: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
Lecture 10 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. Professor Wai Chee Dimock introduces the class to Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, which originally appeared as a series of short stories in Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines. She focuses on Hemingway's designation of taxonomic groups ("types") by race, class, and sexuality, arguing that Hemingway's 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. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 10 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Hemingway in Havana |
| [00:04:59] | 2. Publication History of To Have and Have Not |
| [00:07:40] | 3. Interconnections among the Novels |
| [00:11:00] | 4. Taxonomic Groups ("Types") in To Have and Have Not |
| [00:16:45] | 5. Racism in To Have and Have Not |
| [00:23:21] | 6. Harry Morgan's Verbal Tic, "Some" |
| [00:31:42] | 7. Harry Morgan as a Type |
| [00:39:16] | 8. Symmetries between Harry and Other "Types" |
| [00:45:40] | 9. The Celebrated Concept of the Cojones |
| References |
| Lecture 10 - Hemingway's To Have and Have Not Instructor: Professor Wai Chee Dimock. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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