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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. -- .
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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