Deferring a dream
Subtitle: literary sub-versions of the American Columbiad
By: [compiled by] Gert Buelens/Ernst Rudin.
Contributors: Rudin, Ernst.; Buelens, Gert.
Series: ICSELL
Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 136) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ben Franklin in Harlem: the drama of deferral in Ann Petry's The street / Gayle Wurst; title: Subverting and reconstructing the dream: the radical voices of Le Seuer, Herbst, and Wright / Robert Shulman; title: Two versions of the American dream: Mary Antin's The promised land and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of earth / Aranzazu Usandizaga; title: Supplement to the voyage of Columbus: literary voyages of (un-) discovery in the South Pacific / Otto Heim; title: Jamaica Kincaid's voyage of recovery: the cliffs of Dover are not white / Giovanna Covi; title: 7 days/6 nights at "Plantation estates": a critique of cultural colonialism by Caribbean writers / Judith Raiskin; title: The kaleidoscope of history: Michael Dorris and Louise Erdich's The crown of Columbus / Hans Bak; title: New dreaming: Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko / Jeanne Perreault.