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Hellman Caroline Chamberlin <1979-> |
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Titolo |
Children of the Raven and the Whale : Visions and Revisions in American Literature / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020 |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (194 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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"This book examines ways in which contemporary ethnic American writers reimagine and revise nineteenth- and early twentieth-century |
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texts central to the American literary canon"-- |
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