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Transatlantic women's literature /

Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on 20th-century women's narratives of travel and adventure, and its deliberate expansion of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The exoticised other. Constructing race across the Atlantic : Nella Larsen's Quicksand ; Assimilation in the (fictional) heartland : Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
  • Memoirs and transatlantic travel. 'There is no world outside the text' : transatlantic slippage in Eva Hoffman's Lost in translation ; The anti-tourist : Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a train : daydreaming and smoking around America with interruptions
  • Negotiating the foreign/re-inventing home. 'An invention of the Americans' : negotiating the foreign in Anne Tyler's novels
  • Cross-dressing and transnational space : Isabel Allende's Daughter of fortune.