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Title:

Deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad / [compiled by] Gert Buelens/Ernst Rudin.

Publisher:

Birkhäuser Verlag,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

xv, 144 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Columbus, Christopher--In literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
Discoveries in geography in literature.
Explorers in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and history--United States--History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
America--Historiography.--Historiography.

Other Authors:

Buelens, Gert.
Rudin, Ernst.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.

Contents:

Ben Franklin in Harlem: the drama of deferral in Ann Petry's The street / Gayle Wurst -- Subverting and reconstructing the dream: the radical voices of Le Sueur, Herbst, and Wright / Robert Shulman -- Two versions of the American dream: Mary Antin's The promised land and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth / Aránzazu Usandizaga -- Supplement to the voyage of Columbus: literary voyages of (un-) discovery in the South Pacific / Otto Heim -- Jamaica Kincaid's voyage of recovery: the cliffs of Dover are not white / Giovanna Covi -- 7 days/6 nights at "Plantation estates": a critique of cultural colonialism by Caribbean writers / Judith Raiskin -- The kaleidoscope of history: Michael Dorris and Louise Erdich's The crown of Columbus / Hans Bak -- New dreaming: Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault.

Series:

ICSELL

ISBN:

9783764350222 (alk. paper) :
3764350229 (alk. paper) :
9780817650223 (alk. paper)
0817650229 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

94006566

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)