Unsettling acts : performing transnational adoption / Jieun Lee.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lee, Jieun, 1986- author.

Series:

• Formations: adoption, kinship, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Drama--21st century--History and criticism.
• Intercountry adoption in literature.
• Koreans in literature.
• Theater--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Analyzes how contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption intervene in longstanding transnational adoption narratives, which have essentialized adoptees through ethnonationalist, gendered, and postwar humanitarian themes. Shows how multiple adoptee-centered works performed in South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Denmark reimagine and remake the adoptee experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction. Unsettling transnational adoption in contemporary theater and performance
• Maternal resurrection : birth search and reunion on Korean stages
• Bodily testimony : Korean American women adoptees' autobiographical solo performances
• Contingent belonging : Korean adoptees and adoption communities imagined in US theater
• Decolonial discomfort : extraordinary adoption stories beyond the Korea-US cartography
• Onstage and offstage : imagining transnational adoption within and beyond birth search and reunion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780814215838
• 0814215831
• 9780814259382
• 0814259383

OCLC:

1456755341