Transatlantic Women's Literature

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2008

Transatlantic Women's Literature

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630486

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Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on 20th-century women's narratives of travel and adventure, and its deliberate expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US–UK axis to include Canada, South America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. The crisscrossing of the Atlantic is contested and problematised throughout. The book explores culturally resonant literature that imagines ‘views from both sides’ and examines the imaginary, ‘in-between’ space of the Atlantic. It offers a considered exploration of the way in which the space of the Atlantic and women's space work together in the construction of meaning in transatlantic texts.

Focusing on contemporary literature, this book engages with a range of texts, from novellas and novels to essays, memoirs, and travel literature. Nella Larsen's Quicksand is read alongside Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine in relation to constructions of the exotic; Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation is explored in relation to travel memoirs such as Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train; and Anne Tyler's transatlantic novel The Accidental Tourist is read alongside her latest transpacific novel, Digging to America and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. Readers will gain an appreciation of the complexity of the transatlantic narrative and the ways in which these narratives are defined by and infused with gender considerations.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: ‘No Region for Tourists and Women’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: The Exoticised Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part 2: Memoirs and Transatlantic Travel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Part 3: Negotiating the Foreign/Re-Inventing Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: November 3, 2008
ISBN: 9780748630486