Children of the raven and the whale visions and revisions in American literature / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman.
| Author/creator | Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. |
| Description | xii, 179 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019039077 |
| ISBN | 9780813943596 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813943602 (softcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |