Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction: ‘No Region for Tourists and Women’

pp 1-30

Part 1: The Exoticised Other

pp 31-32

Introduction

pp 33-41

1 - Constructing Race across the Atlantic: Nella Larsen's Quicksand

pp 42-59

2 - Assimilation in the (Fictional) Heartland: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

pp 60-78

Part 2: Memoirs and Transatlantic Travel

pp 79-80

Introduction

pp 81-86

3 - ‘There is No World Outside the Text’: Transatlantic Slippage in Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation

pp 87-105

4 - The Anti-Tourist: Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America with Interruptions

pp 106-126

Part 3: Negotiating the Foreign/Re-Inventing Home

pp 127-128

Introduction

pp 129-133

5 - ‘An Invention of the Americans’: Negotiating the Foreign in Anne Tyler's Novels

pp 134-154

6 - Cross-Dressing and Transnational Space: Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune

pp 155-173

Conclusion

pp 174-181

Bibliography

pp 182-193

Index

pp 194-200