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University of Virginia Press Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature

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About the Author Caroline Chamberlin Hellman is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and the author of Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature: Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home. Product Description Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman's new book examines ways in which contemporary multi-ethnic writers of the United States have responded to nineteenth- and early twentieth century texts historically central to the American literary canon.Each chapter of Children of the Raven and the Whale looks down the roads American literature ultimately traveled, examining pairs and constellations of texts in conversation. In their rewritings and layerings of new stories over older ones, contemporary writers forge ahead in their interrogations of a spectrum of American experience, whether they or their characters are native to the United States, first- or second-generation immigrants, or transnational. Revealing the traces of texts by writers such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin lying beneath contemporary American literature by Chang-rae Lee, Jonathan Lethem, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Díaz, Joseph O'Neill, Colum McCann, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hellman posits the existence of a twenty-first-century American renaissance. Review Hellman offers a compelling rethinking of literary influence and inheritance across racial and ethnic lines, and her work should be of use to scholars in American literary studies.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --author of CHOICEIn Children of the Raven and the Whale, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman makes an effective case for conceiving recent achievements in U.S. fiction and memoir as part of a 'Third American Renaissance' inspired by the legacies of the mid-nineteenth century and the modernist period. Drawing judiciously on theories of intertextuality and literary influence, Hellman offers a set of useful case studies in the dynamics of U.S. literary history, while illuminating the connections of recent writing to an American past and a global present. ----Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University, author of Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

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Brand: University of Virginia Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813943590
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
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Release Date: 30 November 2019
Listed Since: 23 March 2019

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