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UNINA9910159018203321 |
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Autore |
Holmgren Troy Maria |
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Titolo |
Making home : orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels / / Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlström |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
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©2014 |
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1-5261-1149-7 |
1-78170-728-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary American and Canadian writers |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Orphans in literature |
Group identity in literature |
Literature |
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers |
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts -- 2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty -- 3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory -- 4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building -- 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A Coda -- Bibliography -- Index |
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'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 |
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Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Toni Morrison. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00120287 |
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Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Structures / Pekka Neittaanmäki, Sergey Repin, Tero Tuovinen editors |
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