Children of the Raven and the Whale : Visions and Revisions in American Literature /

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"This book examines ways in which contemporary ethnic American writers reimagine and revise nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts central to the American literary canon"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Intertextuality.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Cultural pluralism in literature.
American fiction > Minority authors.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Roman americain > Auteurs issus des minorites > Histoire et critique.
Diversite culturelle dans la litterature.
Influence litteraire, artistique, etc.
Intertextualite.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "A Walker in the City": Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, and Walt Whitman's Cartographic Legacy
  • Literary Custom House: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
  • Short Happy Palimpsest: Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • New York Unearthed: Excavating Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
  • Black Boys and White Whales: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Conversations with Herman Melville, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin
  • Conclusion.

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