Making home : orphanhood, kinship, and cultural memory in contemporary American novels / Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlstrom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmgren Troy, Maria, editor.

Kella, Elizabeth, editor.

Wahlström, Helena, editor.

Series:

Contemporary American and Canadian writers.

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Orphans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'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.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526111494

1526111497

9781781707289

1781707286

OCLC:

989820034