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Deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad
- Title
- Deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad / [compiled by] Gert Buelens/Ernst Rudin.
- Publication
- Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 144 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- ICSELL
- Subjects
- Explorers in literature
- America > Discovery and exploration > Historiography
- Geographical discoveries in literature
- Columbus, Christopher > In literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- American literature > History and criticism
- Literature and history > United States > History
- Imperialism in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 94-3033
- ISBN
- 3764350229 (alk. paper)
- 0817650229 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94006566
- OCLC
- 29908631
- NYPGR29908631-B
- Title
- Deferring a dream : literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad / [compiled by] Gert Buelens/Ernst Rudin.
- Imprint
- Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c1994.
- Series
- ICSELL
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.
- Added Author
- Rudin, Ernst.Buelens, Gert.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 94-3033