Deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad / [compiled by] Gert Buelens/Ernst Rudin.

Other author Rudin, Ernst.
Other author Buelens, Gert.
Format Book
Publication InfoBasel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, ©1994.
Descriptionxv, 144 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Columbus, Christopher--In literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history--United States. --History.
Discoveries (in geography) in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Explorers in literature.
America--Discovery and exploration. --Historiography.

SeriesICSELL
ICSELL. ^A360782
Contents Ben Franklin in Harlem: the drama of deferral in Ann Petry's The street / Gayle Wurst -- Subverting and reconstructing the dream: the radical voices of Le Seuer, Herbst, and Wright / Robert Shulman -- Two versions of the American dream: Mary Antin's The promised land and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth / Aranzazu Usandizaga -- Supplement to the voyage of Columbus: literary voyages of (un-) discovery in the South Pacific / Otto Heim -- Jamaica Kincaid's voyage of recovery: the cliffs of Dover are not white / Giovanna Covi -- 7 days/6 nights at "Plantation estates": a critique of cultural colonialism by Caribbean writers / Judith Raiskin -- The kaleidoscope of history: Michael Dorris and Louise Erdich's The crown of Columbus / Hans Bak -- New dreaming: Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.
LCCN 94006566
ISBN3764350229 (alk. paper) :
ISBN0817650229 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS169.N35 D44 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold