Chesapeake (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James A. Michener
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Colonialism, Nature, Slavery or slaves, Underground railroad, Native Americans or American Indians, Plantations or plantation life, American Revolution, Civil War, Geese, Maryland
- Locales: Maryland
In Chesapeake, another sprawling novel, this one covering four hundred years and four major families, Michener abandoned his usual narrative practice of providing several points of view and used the third-person omniscient point of view. He also shaped his novel by dividing it into fourteen “episodes” with their own chapters. The first seven voyages concern the settlement of the Eastern Shore, first by Pentaquod, a peaceful member of the warlike Susquehannock tribe who settles among the Nanticokes, and then by the three white families that dominate the remainder of the...
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