Claiming others : transracial adoption and national belonging / Mark C. Jerng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerng, Mark C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption in literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Interracial adoption in literature.

Interracial adoption.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its complex implications. In Claiming Others , Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption to the early nineteenth century, revealing its surprising centrality to American literature, law, and social thought. Jerng considers how adoption makes us rethink the parent-child bond as central to issues of race and nationality, showing the ways adoption also speaks to broader questions about our history and identity. He analyzes adoption

Contents:

Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood

On the borders of kinship

Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820's

Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship

The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption

Between rights and needs

The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity

Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects

Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7516-3

OCLC:

698116874