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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791807603321

Autore

Callahan Cynthia <1972->

Titolo

Kin of another kind : 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

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.