{"product_id":"making-home-elizabeth-kella-9781526156075","title":"Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaking 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Kella, Helena Wahlstrom, Maria Holmgren Troy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526156075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526156075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Elizabeth Kella","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126860181759,"sku":"9781526156075","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24ba374c-643a-4067-adec-32bba4193288.jpg?v=1687450555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-home-elizabeth-kella-9781526156075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}