1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159018203321

Autore

Holmgren Troy Maria

Titolo

Making home : orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels / / Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2014

ISBN

1-5261-1149-7

1-78170-728-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.609

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00120287

Titolo

Mathematical Modeling and Optimization of Complex Structures / Pekka Neittaanmäki, Sergey Repin, Tero Tuovinen editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2016

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 328 p. ; 24 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia