Teaching Hemingway and Race

Gary Edward Holcomb

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781606353578
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631013171
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Teaching Hemingway and Race provides a practicable means for teaching the subject of race in Hemingway's writing and related texts—from how to approach ethnic, nonwhite international, and tribal characters to how to teach difficult questions of racial representation. Rather than suggesting that Hemingway's portrayals of cultural otherness are incidental to teaching and reading the texts, the volume brings them to the fore.

Included in the collection are Marc Dudley's instruction on how students may recognize "multiple selves at work in a text"; Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland's approach to In Our Time, informed by American studies and women's studies; and Ross Tangedal's discussion of imperialism in Hemingway's two nonfiction books.

Other topics addressed include questions of developing vigorous learning outcomes when teaching Hemingway, Hemingway's fascination with Latin America, teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Hemingway, discussing Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and Langston Hughes's "Home" in tandem, discussing the black presence in The Sun Also Rises, and a means for comparing how Jean Toomer, Ernest Gaines, and Hemingway deal with the issue of race. This latest volume in the Teaching Hemingway series includes ten essays by leading scholars that place racial markers in their historical context, while also illuminating those connections for scholars, classroom teachers, and students. Readers will find it refreshing and enlightening to encounter essays that juxtapose Hemingway's work alongside Alain Locke's The New Negro and explore Hemingway's influence on Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, and other black writers.

Index

abortion, 91–92

Active Learning, 22, 25, 27–28, 53–54

Adams, Dr., 26, 27, 55, 56, 60; Boulton and, 57

Adams, Nick, 3, 6, 9, 10, 14, 26, 55, 56, 93, 116, 117; Ad and, 13; bucolic world of, 120; Bugs and, 13; George and, 95; grasshoppers and, 119; impressions of, 12–13; modernity and, 122; Ojibwe and, 46; portrayal of, 118; whiteness and, 26

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 110, 112

Africa Dip (game), 21

African American authors, 96, 97

African Americans, 6, 10, 18, 90, 108; interpretation of, 92; place of, 117

African Communities League, 86

African Dodger (game), 21

Africanist presence, 107, 112

alienation, 70, 76, 78, 80, 83, 84, 95, 117; cultural, 109; social, 105, 109

American Dream, 80, 97n1, 101

American GI Forum (AGIF), 83

American Home Missionary Society, 19

American Missionary Association, 19

American Studies, 3, 17

Andreson, Ole, 3

anti-Mexican hysteria, 75

anti-Semitism, 106, 112

art: adjustment and, 34; Black American, 92, 96; modernist, 86; Negro, 96

Artifact Annotated Bibliography, 22, 25

artifacts, 70–71

Ashley, Lady Brett, 107, 108, 111

“Author,” “Old Lady” and, 32

avant-garde movement, 109

Avey, 6, 117–18, 120, 122

“Avey” (Toomer), 6, 115, 117

background: cultural, 62; objectives and, 42–43

Baker, Carlos, 41, 91, 92

Balderrama, Francisco, 75

Ballantine Ale, 45

Banjo (McKay), 108

Banks, James: model of, 59, 60

Baraka, Amiri, 87

Barnard, Kate, 24, 25

Barnard, Rita, 86, 88

Barnes, Jake, 38, 46, 107, 108

Barton, William E., 20

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Teaching Hemingway and Race: An Introduction
• Reading Between the (Color) Lines: Teaching Race in Hemingway’s “The Battler”
• Teaching Hemingway Short Stories through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
• Hemingway’s Experts: Teaching Race in Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa
• Racial Politics to Social Action: Teaching Self/Other Dilemma in Hemingway’s Works
• Blooming Hemingway
• Mexicans in Montana: Teaching Hemingway and Los Betaleberos in “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”
• Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Hemingway: Divergences and Intersections of The New Negro and In Our Time
• Lost in Transition: Questions of Belonging in Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and Hughes’s “Home”
• A Classroom Approach to Black Presence in The Sun Also Rises
• Teaching the Pastoral and Race in Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, and Ernest Gaines
• Works Cited
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index