LEADER 03526nam 2200769 450 001 9910159018203321 005 20200121164311.0 010 $a1-5261-1149-7 010 $a1-78170-728-6 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526111494 035 $a(CKB)3710000000340233 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000982730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786590 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979891023801631 035 $a(DE-B1597)659945 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526111494 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000340233 100 $a20191220h20162014 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaking home $eorphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels /$fMaria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlstro?m 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (x, 254 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary American and Canadian writers 311 $a1-5261-1148-9 311 $a0-7190-8959-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 330 8 $a'Making Home' explores the orphan child as a trope in contemporary US fiction, arguing that in times of perceived national crisis concerns about American identity, family, and literary history are articulated around this literary figure. The book focuses on orphan figures in a broad, multi-ethnic range of contemporary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Toni Morrison. 410 0$aContemporary American and Canadian writers. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism. 606 $aOrphans in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General$2bisach 606 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2thema 610 $aAmerican novels. 610 $acultural memory. 610 $afamily. 610 $agender. 610 $agenre. 610 $akinship. 610 $amulticulturalism. 610 $anational identity. 610 $aorphans. 610 $arace. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.. 615 0$aOrphans in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General 615 7$aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 676 $a813.609 700 $aHolmgren Troy$b Maria$0453768 702 $aKella$b Elizabeth 702 $aWahlstro?m$b Helena 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159018203321 996 $aMaking home$92880318 997 $aUNINA