Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / edited by Marianne Novy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novy, Marianne, 1945-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Adoption in literature.

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

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Adoption--English-speaking countries.

Adoption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists.

Contents:

Imagining adoption / Marianne Novy

Adoption and the "improvement of the estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole

Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy

Outlaws, outcasts, and orphans: the historical imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett

Redefining "real" motherhood: representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 / Julie Berebitsky

From Charlotte to the outposts of empire: troping adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark

Immaculate deception: adoption in Albee's plays / Garry Leonard

"I am your mother; she was a carrying case": adoption, class, and sexual orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Margot Gayle Backus

Junction of amends: Sandra McPherson's poetics of adoption / Jan VanStavern

Adoption, identity, and voice: Jackie Kay's inventions of self / Nancy K. Gish

Genealogy revised in Secrets and lies / Paris De Soto

Natural bonds, legal boundaries: modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric / Judith Modell

"File it under 'L' for love child": adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy / Jill R. Deans

Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Kristina Fagan

Should whites adopt African American children? One family's phenomenological response / Martha Satz

Incorporating the transnational adoptee / Claudia Castañeda.

Notes:

"First paperback edition 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786613113757

9781283113755

1283113759

9780472024940

0472024949

OCLC:

739118690