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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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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.