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Literary legacies, folklore foundations : selfhood and cultural tradition in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature / Karen E. Beardslee.
Van Pelt Library PS374.F62 B43 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beardslee, Karen E., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Literature and folklore--United States.
- Literature and folklore.
- Group identity in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Folklore in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- Self in literature.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 202 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- With this needle ... : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The minister's wooing and Whitney Otto's How to make an American quilt
- Everybody loves a good story: Charles Chesnutt's The conjure woman and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident
- New footing on ancient ground: Zitkala-Sa's American Indian stories and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
- What I learn from you goes with me on the journey: Mar'ia Cristina Mena's "The birth of the god of war" and Roberta Fernandez's Intaglio: a novel in six stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1572331526
- OCLC:
- 48777698
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