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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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: When writers grow up expat
- Third culture reading
- Adult situations and secret perversions in the writings of former military brats
- When your parents work for God: the fiction writing of former missionary kids
- Conclusion: Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible as third culture literature.