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

Publication Info. Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [1994]
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9 D313D    Check Shelf
Description xv, 144 pages ; 24 cm.
Series ICSELL
ICSELL.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 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.
Subject Columbus, Christopher -- In literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history -- United States -- History.
Geographical discoveries in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Explorers in literature.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography.
Added Author Rudin, Ernst.
Buelens, Gert.
ISBN 3764350229 alkaline paper 48F
0817650229 alkaline paper
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