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Transatlantic women's literature / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson.
Series: Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literaturesPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.Description: vii, 200 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780748624454 :
- 0748624457 :
- Literature, Comparative -- American and English
- Literature, Comparative -- English and American
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- PS159.G8 M33 2008
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.
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| PS 153 .N5 E4 1976 Shadow and act. | PS 153 .N5 H38 1999 The Harlem renaissance : the one and the many / | PS 157 .M3 1971b American literature, 1919-1932: a comparative history. | PS 159 .G8 M33 2008 Transatlantic women's literature / | PS 201 .L4 The American Adam; innocence, tragedy, and tradition in the nineteenth century. | PS 201 .M3 American renaissance; art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman | PS 214 .B7 1955 The confident years: 1885-1915. |
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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