Literary legacies, folklore foundations : selfhood and cultural tradition in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature / Karen E. Beardslee.

Author/creator Beardslee, Karen E., 1965-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxxiv, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents With this needle ... : Harriet Beecher Stowe's The minister's wooing and Whitney Otto's How to make an American quilt -- Everybody loves a good story: Charles Chesnutt's The conjure woman and David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident -- New footing on ancient ground: Zitkala-Sa's American Indian stories and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- What I learn from you goes with me on the journey: Mar'ia Cristina Mena's "The birth of the god of war" and Roberta Fernandez's Intaglio: a novel in six stories.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.
LCCN 2001002741
ISBN1572331526