Transatlantic Women's Literature

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. 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. Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 02 Oct 2015). Includes Bibliographical References (pages [182]-193) And Index. English