The writer and the overseas childhood : the third culture literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and others /

"This study surveys 17 authors with "expat" backgrounds to define "third culture literature," a burgeoning yet unrecognized branch of international writing characterized by expressions of dislocation, loss, and disenfranchisement. By explicating how the shared cultural detai...

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Main Author: Rauwerda, Antje M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2012]
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