| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Intertextuality.
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Intertextuality. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Cultural pluralism in literature.
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Cultural pluralism in literature. |
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American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Minority authors. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- Children of the raven and the whale. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943596 (DLC) 2019039077 |
| ISBN |
9780813943619 (electronic book) |
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0813943612 (electronic book) |
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9780813943596 (hardcover) |
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9780813943602 (paperback) |
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