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Literary legacies, folklore foundations : selfhood and cultural tradition in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature

Title: Literary legacies, folklore foundations : selfhood and cultural tradition in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature / Karen E. Beardslee.
Author: Beardslee, Karen E., 1965-
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2001.

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Description

xxiv, 202 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this provocative study of eight novels, Karen E. Beardslee asserts that American writers often engage with folk traditions as a necessary part of their characters' journeys to wholeness. Focusing not only on African American, Native American, and Hispanic American cultures but also on women's culture, Beardslee traces the connections between folk legacies and the search for selfhood in both nineteenth- and twentieth-century works."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

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.

ISBN

1572331526
9781572331525

LCCN

2001002741

OCLC

ocm48777698
48777698
SCSB-1244626

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library