Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780813943619
- 0813943612
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Intertextuality
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Cultural pluralism in literature
- American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Roman américain -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Intertextualité
- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc
- Diversité culturelle dans la littérature
- Roman américain -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American fiction
- American fiction -- Minority authors
- Cultural pluralism in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Intertextuality
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- 1900-2099
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- PS374.I56 H45 2019
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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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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