TY - BOOK AU - Hellman,Caroline Chamberlin TI - Children of the raven and the whale: visions and revisions in American literature SN - 9780813943619 AV - PS374.I56 H45 2019 U1 - 813/.509 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Intertextuality KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Cultural pluralism in literature KW - Minority authors KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Roman américain KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - 21e siècle KW - Intertextualité KW - Influence littéraire, artistique, etc KW - Diversité culturelle dans la littérature KW - Auteurs issus des minorités KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2322347 ER -