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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

viii, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Adoption in literature.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism
English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Adoption--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Novy, Marianne, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : 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 -- The 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 -- A 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.

ISBN:

9780472111817 (alk. paper)
0472111817 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45828681

LCCN:

2001018119

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)