| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages). |
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| Series |
Contemporary American and Canadian writers
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Contemporary American and Canadian writers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Making Home' explores the orphan child as a trope in contemporary US fiction, arguing that in times of perceived national crisis concerns about American identity, family, and literary history are articulated around this literary figure. The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by 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. |
| Contents |
Orphans and American literature : texts, intertexts, and contexts -- From captivity to kinship : Native American orphans and sovereignty -- Literary kinships : Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory -- Family matters : Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building -- At home in the world? : Orphans learn and remember in African American novels. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Orphans in literature.
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Orphans in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kella, Elizabeth, author.
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Wahlström, Helena, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holmgren Troy, Maria. Making home. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014 9780719089596 (OCoLC)883512433 |
| ISBN |
9781781707289 (electronic book) |
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1781707286 (electronic book) |
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1526111497 (electronic book) |
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9781526111494 (electronic book) |
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9780719089596 |
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071908959X |
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