
Teaching Hemingway and Race
Gary Edward Holcomb(Editor)
Kent State University Press
Published on 30. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-60635-357-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Teaching Hemingway and Race is a wholesome and detailed collection of essays complete with shared methods that guides teachers through noteworthy lessons about race. In my opinion, this book should be an integral part of any classroom."-Rocky Mountain ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Kent, OH
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60635-357-8 (9781606353578)
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Teaching Hemingway and Race
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Teaching Hemingway and Race
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Gary Edward Holcomb is professor of African American literature and studies at Ohio University. His scholarship on black modernist writing and Hemingway has appeared in journals such as English Language Notes and Modern Fiction Studies and in such collections as Hemingway in Context. He is also coeditor, with Charles Scruggs, of Hemingway and the Black Renaissance and author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance.