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Author:

Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- author.

Title:

Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 179 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Intertextuality.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Cultural pluralism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American fiction.
American fiction--Minority authors.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intertextuality.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0813943604
9780813943602
0813943590
9780813943596

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091585409

LCCN:

2019039077

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)