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Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors

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'Making Home approaches 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.'
Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016

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Table of Contents

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 Orphanhood Kinship and Cultural

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719089596, 978-0719089596
      ISBN10: 071908959X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors

      Trade Review

      'Making Home approaches 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.'
      Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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