Contemporary American and Canadian Writers #: Making Home

Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels

Contemporary American and Canadian Writers #: Making Home
Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom
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4 Jun 2021 UK
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9781526156075
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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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Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels
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' Making Home approaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight. . . The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages. ' Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Sprak, May 2016 -- .
Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad University Elizabeth Kella is Senior Lecturer in English at Soedertoern University Helena Wahlstroem is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University
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ISBN-13: 9781526156075
Published: 4 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 264

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