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

Author/Creator:

Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- author.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (194 pages)

Subjects:

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.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8139-4361-2

OCLC:

1122695605

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