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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American, in literature.

American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Intertextuality.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

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:

9780813943619

0813943612

OCLC:

1122695605