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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781479503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2001
• ISBN: 1-283-11375-9; 9786613113757; 0-472-02494-9
• Edizione: [1st pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NovyMarianne <1945->
• Disciplina: 810.9/355
• Soggetti: 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 - English-speaking countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First paperback edition 2004."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 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 -- 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.