The Writer and the Overseas Childhood: The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and Others

by Antje M. Rauwerda

What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third culture kids. These authors share experiences of cultural and geographical displacement that fracture constructions of home and identity, as their fiction attests. This study surveys...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786449004
• ISBN13: 9780786449002
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher