The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom

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2011-10-01

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Oakland University

Abstract

This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities of their characters as well as for the “traditional” nature of their focal families.

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Book reviews, Families, Gender, Diversity

Citation

Van Vliet, Jennifer. "The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom" Oakland Journal 21 (2011). 117-140