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Week 2 Activity 2_Gender and Literature

Week 2 Activity 2_Gender and Literature

Q After reading Hemingway’s “Indian Camp,” consider how binary gender works intersectionally to structure the narrative. How does reading binary gender intersectionally help us to understand why Nick thinks he “will never die” at the conclusion, even though he has just seen a dead man? Using the Moodle recording interface (see instructions below), create a 2-3 minute audio recording in which you explain how the binary opposition of gender works intersectionally in “Indian Camp” to position Nick, the main male character, in specific ways that give him or deny him authority in relation to the other men in the story and to the Indian woman. Think especially here about the story’s point of view and the disjunctions between expected gender behavior and the lived experience of individuals.

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Patriarchy and domination of the men are deeply intricated in Hemingway’s Indian Camp as it is expressed continuously that aggressiveness and blood is not something for the faint like feminine beings, and rather a part of the masculine characteristic. Here it is shown that when the husband of the Indian man commits suicide and Nick enquires whether “many men” kill themselves, his father assures that they do not and in case of women, he says that they “hardly” do it. Nick’s father considers suicide to be something so violent that a woman wouldn’t really be capable of doing to herself, and was more masculine.