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International adoption in North American literature and culture
transnational, transracial and transcultural narratives
Abstract
This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen more positively as what has been called the richness of "adoptive being"? The areas covered include Native North American adoption policies and the responses of Native North American writers themselves to these policies of assimilation. This might be termed "adoption from within." "Adoption from without" (transnational adoption) is primarily dealt with in articles discussing Chinese and Korean adoptions in the US. The third section concerns such issues as the multiple forms that adoption can take, notions of adoption and identity, adoption and the family, and the problems of adoption.
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transracial adoption of indigenous children in the USA and Canada
pp.3-26
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_1pp.27-50
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_2representations of fetal alcohol syndrome and disability in recent native North American writing
pp.51-68
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_3pp.69-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_4adoption and transethnic adoption in Forrest Carter's the education of little tree
pp.99-118
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_5pp.121-142
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_6transracial adoption and adoptive being in phan's we should never meet and truong's bitter in the mouth
pp.143-171
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_7a world apart
pp.175-195
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_8contextualizing the black German American adoptee experience(s)
pp.197-220
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_9literary representations of transracial adoption in contemporary South Asian diasporic women's fiction
pp.221-253
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_10transcultural adoption in Susan Warner's the wide, wide world
pp.255-276
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_11Ireland, America, and transatlantic adoption in the lost child of Philomena Lee and Philomena
pp.277-295
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_12Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2017
Pages: 306
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-59941-0
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-59942-7
Full citation:
Shackleton Mark (2017) International adoption in North American literature and culture: transnational, transracial and transcultural narratives. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.