Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom

Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .

Produktdetails

• Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781526156075
• ISBN-10: 1526156075
• Artikelnr.: 59911936

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Orphans and American literature: Texts
intertexts
and contexts 2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty 3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans
gender
genre
and cultural memory 4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans
the bildungsroman
and kinship building 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A Coda Bibliography Index