Transatlantic women's literature / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.

Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures Transatlantic women's literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--American and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and American.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A sustained analysis of Transatlantic womens literature of the twentieth century focusing on narratives of travel and adventure with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada South America the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Contents:

The exoticised other. Constructing race across the Atlantic : Nella Larsen's Quicksand ; Assimilation in the (fictional) heartland : Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

Memoirs and transatlantic travel. 'There is no world outside the text' : transatlantic slippage in Eva Hoffman's Lost in translation ; The anti-tourist : Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a train : daydreaming and smoking around America with interruptions

Negotiating the foreign/re-inventing home. 'An invention of the Americans' : negotiating the foreign in Anne Tyler's novels

Cross-dressing and transnational space : Isabel Allende's Daughter of fortune.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-193) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5224-8

0-7486-3048-1

OCLC:

1306540217