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Children of the Raven and the Whale Visions and Revisions in American Literature
Title
Children of the Raven and the Whale [electronic resource] : Visions and Revisions in American Literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.
ISBN
0813943612
9780813943619
0813943604
9780813943602
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"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.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 Literature
Other formats
Print version: Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- Children of the raven and the whale Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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