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Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / Cynthia Callahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Cynthia, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Interracial adoption in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver.
- Contents:
- Introduction : reading transracial adoption in American literature
- Voluntary belonging: historical and cultural contexts
- Passing for kin in Charles W. Chesnutt's "Her Virginia mammy" and the quarry
- Unknowable origins in Kate Chopin's "Desire's baby" and William Faulkner's Light in August
- Integrated families : Robert Boles's curling and Toni Morrison's Tar baby
- Captivity and rescue in the fiction of Dallas Chief Eagle, Leslie Marmon Silko
- Barbara Kingsolver, and Sherman Alexie
- Adopting ambivalence in the fiction of Sui Sin Far, Anne Tyler, and Gish Jen.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613011664
- 9781283011662
- 1283011662
- 9780472027910
- 0472027913
- OCLC:
- 705945752
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