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Writing America : literary landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee, a reader's companion / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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  • ISBN: 0813575974
  • ISBN: 9780813575971
  • Physical Description: ix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
Celebrating the many in one : Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, New York -- Living in harmony with nature : Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts -- Freedom's port : the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts -- The house that Uncle Tom's cabin built : 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, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota -- I know why the caged bird sings : the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio -- Leaving the old world for the new : the Tenement Museum, New York City -- The revolt from the village : the Original Main Street, 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 Library / the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York City -- Mexican American writers in the borderlands of culture : San Ygnacio, Roma, La Lomita, 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.
Subject:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > United States.
Literary landmarks > United States.

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