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Title:
International adoption in North American literature and culture : transnational, transracial and transcultural narratives / Mark Shackleton, editor.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xix, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Adoption--North America--History--20th century.
Adoption in literature.
Adoption.
Adoption in literature.
North America.
Literatur
Ausla˜ndisches Kind--Motiv
Adoption--Motiv
USA
1900-1999
History.
Other Authors:
Shackleton, Mark, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica : transracial adoption of indigenous children in the USA and Canada / Roger L. Nichols -- Stimulating and resisting transborder indigenous adoptions in North America in the 1970s / Margaret D. Jacobs -- "Disastrous adoption"? : representations of fetal alcohol syndrome and disability in recent Native North American writing / Mark Shackleton -- Indigenous identity, forced transracial removal, and intergenerational trauma in Linda Hogan's Solar storms and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Pirjo Ahokas -- Sugarcoated prejudice : adoption and transethnic adoption in Forrest Carter's The education of Little Tree / Bo Pettersson -- Writing and identity in Jane Jeong Trenka's life narratives / Lena Ahlin -- The (T)race of Trojan horses : transracial adoption and adoptive being in Phan's We should never meet and Truong's Bitter in the mouth / Begona Simal-Gonzalez -- Mythologizing transnational and transracial adoption in Mona Friis Bertheussen's Twin sisters : a world apart / Alan Shima -- Stories matter : contextualizing the Black German American adoptee experience(s) / Rosemarie Pena -- Girls interrupted, business unbegun, and precarious homes : literary representations of transracial adoption in contemporary South Asian diasporic women's fiction / Christine Vogt-William -- "A daughter three thousand miles off" : transcultural adoption in Susan Warner's The wide, wide world / Jane Weiss -- Cruel chronologies : Ireland, America, and transatlantic adoption in The lost child of Philomena Lee and Philomena / John McLeod.
ISBN:
3319599410
9783319599410
OCLC:
(OCoLC)987282357
LCCN:
2017944112
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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