03133oam 22006494a 450 991096627660332120240513013937.097808139436190813943612(CKB)4100000009938649(MiAaPQ)EBC5988244(OCoLC)1122695605(MdBmJHUP)muse76140(Perlego)1349666(EXLCZ)99410000000993864920191002d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChildren of the Raven and the WhaleVisions and Revisions in American Literature /Caroline Chamberlin Hellman1st ed.Charlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©2019.1 online resource (194 pages)9780813943602 0813943604 9780813943596 0813943590 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 Chamberlin1979-1804566MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910966276603321Children of the Raven and the Whale4352665UNINA