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Auteur(s) : Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (1950-....)
Titre(s) : Writing America [Texte imprimé] : literary landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee : a reader's companion / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publication : New Brunswick (N.J.) : Rutgers university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-381 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Comprend : Introduction : The literary landscape ; Celebrating the many in one : Walt Whitman
Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, New York ; Living in harmony with nature : Walden
Pond State Reservation, Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts ; Freedom's port : the
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts ; The house
that Uncle Tom's Cabin bought : Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Connecticut
; The irony of American history : the Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri,
and the Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut ; Native American voices remember
Wounded Knee : Wounded Knee National Historic Monument, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
South Dakota ; "I know why the caged bird sings" : the Paul Laurence Dunbar House
and Museum, Dayton, Ohio ; Leaving the Old World for the New : the Tenement Museum,
New York City ; The revolt from the village : Original Main Street Historic District,
Sauk Centre, Minnesota ; Asian American writers and creativity in confinement : Angel
Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California, and Manzanar National Historic
Site, Independence, California ; Harlem and the flowering of African American letters
: the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library / the Schomburg Center for
Research on Black Culture, New York City ; Mexican American writers in the borderlands
of culture : La Lomita, Roma, San Ygnacio, and San Agustin de Laredo Historic Districts,
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas ; American writers and dreams of the silver screen
: Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, Los Angeles, California.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
Sujet(s) : Littérature et géographie -- États-Unis
Écrivains américains -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813575971. - ISBN 0813575974 (rel.). - ISBN 9780813575995 (erroné). - ISBN
9780813576008 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444995066
Notice n° :
FRBNF44499506
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