Maria Holmgren Troy & Elizabeth Kella 
Making home [EPUB ebook] 
Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

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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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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
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Bibliography
Index

Sobre el autor

Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad University

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781526111487 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.9 MB ● Editorial Manchester University Press ● Ciudad Manchester ● País GB ● Publicado 2016 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5369976 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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