Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Writing America

Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (a Reader's Companion)

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading readers on an enticing journey across the borders of physical places and imaginative terrains, includes over 60 images, and extended excerpts from a variety of literary works. Each chapter ends with resources for further exploration. Fisher Fishkin expertly reveals the alchemy though which American writers have transformed the world around them into art, changing their world and ours in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 177mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780813575971
• ISBN-10: 0813575974
• Artikelnr.: 42744003

Autorenporträt

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Literary Landscape
1          Celebrating the Many in One
Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, New York
2          Living in Harmony with Nature
Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts
3          Freedom’s Port
The New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, New Bedford,
Massachusetts
4          The House that Uncle Tom’s Cabin Built
Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Connecticut
5          The Irony of American History
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri, and the Mark Twain House,
Hartford, Connecticut
6          Native American Voices Remember
Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
7          “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
The Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio
8          Leaving the Old World for the New
The Tenement Museum, New York City
9          The Revolt from the Village
The Original Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota
10        Asian American Writers and Creativity in Confinement
Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California, and Manzanar
National Historic Site, Independence, California
11        Harlem and the Flowering of African American Letters
The 135th Street Library / The Schomburg Center for Research on Black
Culture, New York City
12        Mexican American Writers in the Borderlands of Culture
Roma, La Lomita, San Agustin de Laredo, and San Ygnacio Historic Districts,
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas
13        American Writers and Dreams of the Silver Screen
Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, Los Angeles,
California
Index of Authors
Index of Historic Sites