Overview
- Represents a timley intervention in the burgeoning field of literary adoption studies
- Brings together a group of internationally recognised expert contributors
- Spans multiple aspects of North American adoption, including Native American and Asian American adoption
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Native North America
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Europe and America
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Transnational, Transracial and Transcultural Narratives
Editors: Mark Shackleton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59941-0Published: 20 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86739-7Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59942-7Published: 06 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 306
Topics: North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature