Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom

Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089596
• ISBN-10: 071908959X
• Artikelnr.: 41369550

Autorenporträt

Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad University Elizabeth Kella is Senior Lecturer in English at Södertörn University Helena Wahlström is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University

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