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.
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