Key West Hemingway : a reassessment / edited by Kirk Curnutt and Gail D. Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curnutt, Kirk, 1964- editor.

Sinclair, Gail D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Homes and haunts--Florida--Key West.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Political and social views.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. To have and have not.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 325 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]

Summary:

"No other work has focused so sharply and revealed so clearly the vitality of Hemingway's time in Key West. Key West Hemingway shows that even as his Papa persona grew during the 1930s, Hemingway continued to generate a significant body of nuanced and complex (if also misunderstood) experimental prose. With keen scrutiny and brilliance, these fresh and readable essays rediscover and give us Hemingway's multifaceted American literary voices."--Linda Patterson Miller, editor of Letters from the Lost Generation "This impressive and cohesive collection of essays on Hemingway's Key West works and days puts into proper critical and biographical perspective one of the least understood yet most productive periods in his life. Husband, lover, father, son, fisherman, political activist, defender of the vets, essayist, and crafter of fiction--it's all here, close-up and wide-angle, the American Hemingway of 1928-1940, in all his facets, the rough diamond in the Florida sun."--Allen Josephs, author of Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida Conventional wisdom holds that Hemingway's Key West years were among his least productive, and many are dismissive of the works he produced during that time. In this collection, several leading Hemingway scholars focus on his overlooked short stories and essays, especially those written for Esquire from 1933 to 1936. They demonstrate how the island inspired some of his most vivid work and discuss how the "Hemingway industry" continues to endure. Kirk Curnutt is professor and chair of English at Troy University. Gail D. Sinclair is scholar in residence and executive director of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College. Contributors : Patrick Hemingway | Carol Hemingway | Lawrence R. Broer | Gail D. Sinclair | Milton A. Cohen | Dan Monroe | Susan F. Beegel | Steve Paul | Mark P. Ott | Susan J. Wolfe | Mimi Reisel Gladstein | Michael J. Crowley | John J. Fenstermaker | E. Stone Shiftlet | Kirk Curnutt | James H. Meredith | Nicole Camastra | Russ Pottle

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Hemingway Chronology: The Key West Years

Introduction: Hemingway and Key West Literature

Part I. Hemingway in the Keys

1. A Key West Girl

2. 907 Whitehead Street

3. Only in Key West: Hemingway's Fortunate Isle

4. The End of Some Things: Hemingway's Decade of Loss

5. Beleaguered Modernists: Hemingway, Stevens, and the Left

6. Hemingway, the Left, and Key West

Part II. Revisionary Readings of To Have and Have Not

7. Harry and the Pirates: The Romance and Reality of Piracy in Hemingway's To Have and Have Not

8. Tropical Iceberg: Cuban Turmoil in the 1930s and Hemingway's To Have and Have Not

9. The Anita Logs and To Have and Have Not: The Gulf Stream as Transcribed Experience

10. "The Poor Are Different from You and Me": Masculinity and Class in To Have and Have Not

11. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hawks: The Nexus of Creativity that Generated the Film To Have and Have Not

Part III. Tourism, Celebrity, Natural Disaster: Hemingway's Neglected Florida Fiction and Essays

12. Reexamining the Origins of "After the Storm"

13. Why Esquire? The Multiple Voices of Hemingway's Complex Public Persona

14. Letters and Literary Tourism: Hemingway as Your Key West Correspondent in "The Sights of Whitehead Street"

15. Hemingway's Key West Band of Brothers: The World War I Veterans in "Who Murdered the Vets?" and To Have and Have Not

16. The Nice, the Strange, and the Wicked: Physical and Moral Landscapes in "The Strange Country"

Part IV. Destination: Hemingway

17. Key West as Carnival: Hemingway and the Commodification of Celebrity

Works Cited

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-6300-0

OCLC:

1090498848