Interactive video lesson plan for: 10. Hemingway -- To Have and Have Not

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)

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 taxanomic 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.

Warning: This lecture contains graphic content and/or adult language that some viewers may find disturbing

00:00 - Chapter 1. Hemingway in Havana
04:59 - Chapter 2. Publication History of To Have and Have Not
07:40 - Chapter 3. Interconnections Between the Novels So Far
10:59 - Chapter 4. Taxonomic Groups ("Types") in To Have and Have Not
16:45 - Chapter 5. Racism in To Have and Have Not
23:20 - Chapter 6. Harry Mogan's Verbal Tic, "Some"
31:42 - Chapter 7. Harry Morgan as a Type
39:16 - Chapter 8. Symmetries between Harry and Other "Types"
45:39 - Chapter 9. The Celebrated Concept of the Cojones

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu

This course was recorded in Fall 2011.

Tagged under: Hemingway,To Have Have Not,publication history,Havana 1930s,Key West,The Old Man Sea,taxonomic types,shifting perspectives,narrative symmetries,Toni Morrison,nigger,chink,cojones