Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy

Making home (eBook, ePUB)

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison.

The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111487
• Artikelnr.: 48796397

Autorenporträt

Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlström

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