{"product_id":"making-home-orphanhood-kinship-and-cultural-memory-in-contemporary-american-novels-9781526156075","title":"Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMaking Home \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight...The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts\u003cbr\u003e2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory\u003cbr\u003e4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building \u003cbr\u003e5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels \u003cbr\u003eA Coda\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041020379479,"sku":"9781526156075","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526156075.jpg?v=1750948628","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-home-orphanhood-kinship-and-cultural-memory-in-contemporary-american-novels-9781526156075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}