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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
Series:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Comparative literature > American and English.
Comparative literature > English and American.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature
American literature > Women authors
Comparative literature > American and English
Comparative literature > English and American
English literature
English literature > Women authors
Englisch
Frauenliteratur
Reiseliteratur
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Författare > Storbritannien > Förenta staterna > 1900-talet.
Engelsk litteratur > kvinnliga författare > historia > 1900-talet.
Amerikansk litteratur > kvinnliga författare > historia > 1900-talet.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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