1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465289103321

Autore

Callahan Cynthia <1972->

Titolo

Kin of another kind [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-01166-2

9786613011664

0-472-02791-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/35254

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Interracial adoption in literature

Race in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : reading transracial adoption in American literature -- Voluntary belonging: historical and cultural contexts -- Passing for kin in Charles W. Chesnutt's "Her Virginia mammy" and the quarry -- Unknowable origins in Kate Chopin's "Desire's baby" and William Faulkner's Light in August -- Integrated families : Robert Boles's curling and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Captivity and rescue in the fiction of Dallas Chief Eagle, Leslie Marmon Silko -- Barbara Kingsolver, and Sherman Alexie -- Adopting ambivalence in the fiction of Sui Sin Far, Anne Tyler, and Gish Jen.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910699370803321

Titolo

Cultural property [[electronic resource] ] : memorandum of understanding between the United States of America and Italy signed at Washington January 19, 2001 and agreement extending and amending the memorandum of understanding effected by exchange of notes at Washington January 13, 2006

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Dept. of State, , [2006?]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (23 unnumbered pages)

Collana

Treaties and other international acts series ; ; 13141

Soggetti

Cultural property - Protection - Law and legislation - United States

Cultural property - Protection - Law and legislation - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 21, 2010).