Transatlantic Women S Literature

Resumen del Libro

Transatlantic Womens Literaturefocuses on twentieth century womens narratives of travel and adventure, deliberately expanding the Transatlantic concept to include Canada, South America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. The book contests and problematizes the crisscrossing of the Atlantic throughout, noting culturally resonant literature that imagines views from both sides and reconfigures the in-between space of the Atlantic. The author thoroughly explores the way in which the space of the Atlantic-and womens space work together in the construction of meaning in transatlantic texts, engaging with a range of genres, from novellas and novels to essays, memoirs, and travel literature. Nella Larsens Quicksandis read alongside Bharati Mukherjees Jasmineand in relation to constructions of the exotic, Eva Hoffmans Lost in Translationis explored in relation to memoirs of travel, such as Jenny Diskis Skating to Antarcticaand Stranger on a Train. Anne Tylers transatlantic The Accidental Touristis compared to her latest transpacific Digging to Americaand Isabel Allendes Daughter of Fortune. Readers gain an appreciation of the complex transatlantic narrative and the ways in which these narratives are defined by and infused with gender.