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Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / edited by Marianne Novy.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- English-speaking countries.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Imagining Adoption / Marianne Novy 1
- Adoption and the "Improvement of the Estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole 17
- Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy 35
- Outlaws, Outcasts, and Orphans: The Historical Imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett 57
- Redefining "Real" Motherhood: Representations of Adoptive Mothers, 1900-1950 / Julie Berebitsky 83
- From Charlotte to the Outposts of Empire: Troping Adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark 97
- The Immaculate Deception: Adoption in Albee's Plays / Garry Leonard 111
- "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 133
- A Junction of Amends: Sandra McPherson's Poetics of Adoption / Jan VanStavern 151
- Adoption, Identity, and Voice: Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self / Nancy K. Gish 171
- Genealogy Revised in Secrets and Lies / Paris De Soto 193
- Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries: Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric / Judith Modell 207
- "File It under "L" for Love Child" Adoptive Policies and Practices in the Erdrich Tetralogy / Jill R. Deans 231
- Adoption as National Fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's: Pigs in Heaven and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners / Kristina Fagan 251
- Should Whites Adopt African American Children? One Family's Phenomenological Response / Martha Satz 267
- Incorporating the Transnational Adoptee / Claudia Castaneda 277.
- Notes:
- "First paperback edition 2004."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472111817
- 9780472030026
- 0472030027
- 9780472024940
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.16277
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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