Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad UniversityElizabeth Kella is Senior Lecturer in English at Södertörn UniversityHelena Wahlström is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University

• Introduction1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A CodaBibliographyIndex

'Making Home approaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight...The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages.'Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016

Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad UniversityElizabeth Kella is Senior Lecturer in English at Södertörn UniversityHelena Wahlström is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University

• Introduction1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A CodaBibliographyIndex

'Making Home approaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight...The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages.'Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016

Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad UniversityElizabeth Kella is Senior Lecturer in English at Södertörn UniversityHelena Wahlström is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Uppsala University

• Introduction1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A CodaBibliographyIndex

'Making Home approaches the extremely complex topic of American culture with refreshing clarity and insight...The result is an extremely well structured and accessible study, whose depth lies in its approach to the many diverse texts it engages.'Wade A Bell Jr, Moderna Språk, May 2016