Title: Key West Hemingway : a reassessment /
Authors: Curnutt, Kirk, 1964-; Sinclair, Gail D.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, Homes and haunts Florida Key West.; Hemingway, Ernest, Political and social views.; Hemingway, Ernest,; Key West (Fla.) Intellectual life
Abstract: "Most scholars contend that this stage [works written at Key West from 1928-1940] in Hemingway's writing marks his 'experimental' phase and are dismissive of these works. In Key West Hemingway, the argument is finally made for the importance of this body of literature. Comprising essays focusing on often-overlooked short stories and essays, this collection argues that the island helped bring about some of Hemingway's most overtly political and ethically complex work."--Inside jacket.
Contents: A Key West girl / Ernest Hemingway, with an introduction by Patrick Hemingway -- 907 Whitehead Street / Carol Hemingway -- Only in Key West : Hemingway's fortunate isle / Lawrence R. Broer -- The end of some things : Hemingway's decade of loss / Gail D. Sinclair -- Beleaguered modernists : Hemingway, Stevens, and the left / Milton A. Cohen -- Hemingway, the left, and Key West / Dan Monroe -- Harry and the pirates : the romance and reality of piracy in Hemingway's To have and have not / Susan F. Beegel -- Tropical iceberg : Cuban turmoil in the 1930s and Hemingway's To have and have not / Steve Paul -- The Anita logs and To have and have not : the Gulf Stream as transcribed experience / Mark P. Ott -- "The poor are different from you and me" : masculinity and class in To have and have not / Susan J. Wolfe -- Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hawks : the nexus of creativity that generated the film To have and have not / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Reexamining the origins of "After the storm" / Michael J. Crowley -- Why Esquire? : the multiple voices of Hemingway's complex public persona / John J. Fenstermaker -- Letters and literary tourism : Hemingway as your Key West correspondent in "The sights of Whitehead Street" / E. Stone Shiflet and Kirk Curnutt -- Hemingway's Key West band of brothers : the World War I veterans in "Who murdered the vets?" and To have and have not / James H. Meredith -- The nice, the strange, and the wicked : physical and moral landscapes in "The strange country" / Nicole Camastra -- Key West as carnival : Hemingway and the commodification of celebrity / Russ Pottle.