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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beardslee, Karen E., 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2001]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and folklore > United States.
Group identity in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Folklore in literature.
Culture in literature.
Self in literature.
Table of 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.