02997oam 22005894a 450 991079960140332120191223081309.00-8139-4361-2(CKB)4100000009938649(MiAaPQ)EBC5988244(OCoLC)1122695605(MdBmJHUP)muse76140(EXLCZ)99410000000993864920191002d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChildren of the Raven and the WhaleVisions and Revisions in American Literature /Caroline Chamberlin HellmanCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©2019.1 online resource (194 pages)0-8139-4360-4 0-8139-4359-0 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.National characteristics, American, in literatureAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismCultural pluralism in literatureInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)IntertextualityAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books. National characteristics, American, in literature.American fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Cultural pluralism in literature.Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Intertextuality.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.813/.509Hellman Caroline Chamberlin1979-1586704MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910799601403321Children of the Raven and the Whale3873485UNINA