Transatlantic Women's Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23486987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson (0009-0000-1027-5997, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Transatlantic women's literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624454.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W1489414713 |
| ISBN | 9780748624454 |
| Open Library | OL23027314M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This book contributes to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. It focuses on twentieth-century women's narratives of travel and adventure, and their 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, the 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 transatlantic narratives and the ways in which they are defined by, and infused with, gender considerations.
Political science · Canadian Identity and History · History · Irish and British Studies · 20th century · American and English · American literature · Comparative Literature · Comparative literature, american and english · English and American · English literature · History and criticism · Literature, Comparative · Women authors
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |