Transatlantic women's literature / [electronic resource]
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature
American literature
English literature
American literature
English literature