Writing America
Subtitle: literary landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee, a reader's companion
By: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780813575971
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Minority authors; Literary landmarks; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors
Description: Presents descriptions and illustrations of over 150 historical landmarks associated with well-known American writers and poets, discussing the influence these sites had on their development as artists and on the creation of their works. --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Celebrating the many in one : Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, New York; title: Living in harmony with nature : Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts; title: Freedom's port : the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts; title: The house that Uncle Tom's cabin built : Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Connecticut; title: The irony of American history : the Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri, and the Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut; title: Native American voices remember : Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota; title: I know why the caged bird sings : the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio; title: Leaving the old world for the new : the Tenement Museum, New York City; title: The revolt from the village : the Original Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota; title: Asian American writers and creativity in confinement : Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California, and Manzanar National Historic Site, Independence, California; title: Harlem and the flowering of African American letters : the 135th Street Library / the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York City; title: Mexican American writers in the borderlands of culture : San Ygnacio, Roma, La Lomita, and San Agustin de Laredo Historic Districts, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas; title: American writers and dreams of the silver screen : Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, Los Angeles, California.