Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- Children of the raven and the whale Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. 9780813943619
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2019039077
ISBN9780813943596 (hardcover)
ISBN0813943590 (hardcover)
ISBN9780813943602 (paperback)
ISBN0813943604 (paperback)
ISBNelectronic book

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Joyner General Stacks PS374 .I56 H45 2019 ✔ Available Place Hold