Antje M. Rauwerda

The Writer and the Overseas Childhood

The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and Others

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Produktbeschreibung

What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third culture kids. These authors share experiences of cultural and geographical displacement that fracture constructions of home and identity, as their fiction attests. This study surveys 17 authors with "expat" backgrounds to define "third culture literature," a burgeoning yet unrecognized branch of international writing characterized by expressions of dislocation, loss, and disenfranchisement. By explicating how the shared cultural details of these writers emerge in literary themes and images, this work introduces third culture literature as a separate field, reinterpreting the work of major writers from across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780786449002
• ISBN-10: 0786449004
• Artikelnr.: 34747427

Autorenporträt

Antje M. Rauwerda is an associate professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction: When Writers Grow Up Expat
One-Third Culture Reading
Two-Adult Situations and Secret Perversions in the Writings of Former
Military Brats
Three-When Your Parents Work for God: The Fiction Writing of Former
Missionary Kids
Conclusion: Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible as Third Culture
Literature
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index