03526nam 2200769 450 991015901820332120200121164311.01-5261-1149-71-78170-728-610.7765/9781526111494(CKB)3710000000340233(StDuBDS)EDZ0000982730(MiAaPQ)EBC4786590(UkMaJRU)992979891023801631(DE-B1597)659945(DE-B1597)9781526111494(EXLCZ)99371000000034023320191220h20162014 fy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaking home orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels /Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena WahlströmManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2016.©20141 online resource (x, 254 pages) digital file(s)Contemporary American and Canadian writers1-5261-1148-9 0-7190-8959-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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'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.Contemporary American and Canadian writers.American fiction21st centuryHistory and criticism.Orphans in literatureGroup identity in literatureLiteraturemupLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose WritersbicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralbisachLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersthemaAmerican novels.cultural memory.family.gender.genre.kinship.multiculturalism.national identity.orphans.race.American fictionHistory and criticism..Orphans in literature.Group identity in literature.LiteratureLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose WritersLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers813.609Holmgren Troy Maria453768Kella ElizabethWahlström HelenaUkMaJRUBOOK9910159018203321Making home2880318UNINA