Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men : Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature.
Carden, Mary Paniccia.
Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men : Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (255 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Pioneers and Patriots -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Self-Making and Self-Improvisation -- Fatherlands: Paternal Erotics of Place in Faulkner, Welty, and Morrison -- No-Places: Un-Made Children in Petry, Ellison, and Boyle -- Motherlands: Alternative Places in Cather, Smiley, and Faulkner -- Otherlands: Self-Improvisation in Cisneros, Wideman, and Morrison -- Coda: Improvisation Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780838757895
American literature -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Self-determination, National, in literature.
Success in literature.
Ideology in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Electronic books.
PS169.N35 -- C37 2010eb
810.9/35873
Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men : Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (255 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Pioneers and Patriots -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Self-Making and Self-Improvisation -- Fatherlands: Paternal Erotics of Place in Faulkner, Welty, and Morrison -- No-Places: Un-Made Children in Petry, Ellison, and Boyle -- Motherlands: Alternative Places in Cather, Smiley, and Faulkner -- Otherlands: Self-Improvisation in Cisneros, Wideman, and Morrison -- Coda: Improvisation Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780838757895
American literature -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Self-determination, National, in literature.
Success in literature.
Ideology in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Electronic books.
PS169.N35 -- C37 2010eb
810.9/35873