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Autore |
Callahan Cynthia <1972-> |
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Titolo |
Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-01166-2 |
9786613011664 |
0-472-02791-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Interracial adoption in literature |
Race in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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