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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799601403321

Autore

Hellman Caroline Chamberlin <1979->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2019

ISBN

0-8139-4361-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Disciplina

813/.509

Soggetti

National characteristics, American, in literature

American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism

Cultural pluralism in literature

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Intertextuality

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--