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Making home : orphanhood, kinship, and cultural memory in contemporary American novels /
'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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Contemporary American and Canadian writers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | '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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781781707289 1781707286 1526111497 9781526111494 |