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Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels

Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels

Kella, Elizabeth
Troy, Maria Holmgren
Wahlstrom, Helena

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 071908959X
ISBN13: 9780719089596
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Aug 31 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors 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.

The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.

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