Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 316 pages)
Edition:
1st pbk. ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0472030027
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0472111817
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0472024949
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9780472030026
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9780472111817
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9780472024940
Content:
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303) and index
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Imagining adoption
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Adoption and the "improvement of the estate" in Trollope and Craik
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Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda
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Outlaws, outcasts, and orphans: the historical imagination and Anne of Green Gables
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Redefining "real" motherhood: representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950
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From Charlotte to the outposts of empire: troping adoption
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Immaculate deception: adoption in Albee's plays
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"I am your mother; she was a carrying case": adoption, class, and sexual orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit
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Junction of amends: Sandra McPherson's poetics of adoption
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Adoption, identity, and voice: Jackie Kay's inventions of self
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Genealogy revised in Secrets and lies
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Natural bonds, legal boundaries: modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric
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"File it under 'L' for love child": adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy
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Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners
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Should whites adopt African American children? One family's phenomenological response
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Incorporating the transnational adoptee
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Imagining adoption Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004, ©2001
Language:
English
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