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

• Autore: Hellman Caroline Chamberlin <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 pages)
• Disciplina: 813/.509
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Children of the Raven and the Whale
• ISBN: 0-8139-4361-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799601403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II