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Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men : Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780838757895
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sons and Daughters of Self-Made MenDDC classification:
  • 810.9/35873
LOC classification:
  • PS169.N35 -- C37 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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