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Autore |
Carden Mary Paniccia |
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Titolo |
Sons and daughters of self-made men : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature / / Mary Paniccia Carden |
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Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Group identity in literature |
Self-determination, National, in literature |
Success in literature |
Ideology in literature |
Patriarchy in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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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Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Pioneers and Patriots -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Self-Making and Self-Improvisation -- Fatherlands: Paternal Erotics of Place in Faulkner, Welty, and Morrison -- No-Places: Un-Made Children in Petry, Ellison, and Boyle -- Motherlands: Alternative Places in Cather, Smiley, and Faulkner -- Otherlands: Self-Improvisation in Cisneros, Wideman, and Morrison -- Coda: Improvisation Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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