Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.
| Author/creator | Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | xii, 179 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Children of the raven & the whale |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- Children of the raven and the whale Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. 9780813943619 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2019039077 |
| ISBN | 9780813943596 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0813943590 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780813943602 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0813943604 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS374 .I56 H45 2019 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |