All Stories

  1. Orphans in American novels
  2. Introduction
  3. Coda
  4. Orphans and American literature: texts, intertexts, and contexts
  5. From captivity to kinship: Native American orphans and sovereignty
  6. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory
  7. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building
  8. At home in the world? Orphans learn and remember in African American novels