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Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Elizabeth Kella,Helena Wahlstrom

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Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Elizabeth Kella,Helena Wahlstrom

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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Manchester University Press

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1526111489

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9781526111487

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History

By: Maria A. Windell

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Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History

By: Maria A. Windell

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo American women writers also used sentimentalism to construct narratives that reframed or countered the violence dominating the nineteenth-century Americas, including the Haitian Revolution, Indian Removal, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba's independence wars. By tracking the transformation of sentimentalism as the US reacted to, enacted, and intervened in conflict Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History demonstrates how marginalized writers negotiated hemispheric encounters amidst the gendered, racialized, and cultural violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. It remaps sentiment's familiar transatlantic and national scholarly frameworks through authors such as Leonora Sansay and Mary Peabody Mann, and considers how authors including John Rollin Ridge, John S. and Harriet Jacobs, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Victor Séjour, and Martin R. Delany adapted the mode. Transamerican sentimentalism cannot unseat the violence of the nineteenth-century Americas, but it does produce other potential outcomes-including new paradigms for understanding the coquette, a locally successful informal diplomacy, and motivations for violent slave revolt. Such transformations mark not sentiment's failures or distortions, but its adaptive attempts to survive and thrive.

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Oxford University Press

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0192606859

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9780192606853

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

By: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

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The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

By: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question "What if?" Spanning slightly more than two centuries of speculative fiction, from the starting point in Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein to contemporary works that engage with the vast ramifications of anthropogenic climate change, analyses demonstrate how Arctic discourses are supported or subverted and how new Arctics are added to the textual tradition. To illuminate wider lines of inquiry informing the way the world is envisioned, humanity’s place and function in it, and more-than-human entanglements, analyses focus on the function of the actual Arctic and how this function impacts and is impacted by speculative elements. With effects of climate change training the global eye on the Arctic, and as debates around future northern cultural, economic and environmental sustainability intensify, there is a need for a deepened understanding of the discourses that have constructed and are constructing the Arctic. A careful mapping and serious consideration of both past and contemporary speculative visions thus illuminate the role the Arctic has played and may come to play in a diverse set of practices and fields.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000915395

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Making home

Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Elizabeth Kella,Helena Wahlstrom

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Orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels

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Nordic Gothic

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Hoglund,Yvonne Leffler,Sofia Wijkmark,Jerrold Hogle

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Nordic Gothic

By: Maria Holmgren Troy,Johan Hoglund,Yvonne Leffler,Sofia Wijkmark,Jerrold Hogle

Giving an overview of contemporary Nordic Gothic in different media as well as tracing its history, Nordic Gothic also provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It explores Nordic folklore, settings and identities as well as making visible cultural anxieties haunting the welfare state.

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International Gothic

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1526163950

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Making home

Making home

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History

Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

Making home

Making home

Nordic Gothic

Nordic Gothic

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