03180nam 2200673Ia 450 991082841670332120200520144314.00-8166-7516-3(CKB)2670000000069687(EBL)635546(OCoLC)698116874(SSID)ssj0000467719(PQKBManifestationID)11973239(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467719(PQKBWorkID)10496749(PQKB)10688763(MiAaPQ)EBC635546(MdBmJHUP)muse29844(Au-PeEL)EBL635546(CaPaEBR)ebr10440598(CaONFJC)MIL525746(PPN)161122213(EXLCZ)99267000000006968720100813d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrClaiming others transracial adoption and national belonging /Mark C. Jerng1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (352 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6959-7 0-8166-6958-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood -- On the borders of kinship -- Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820's -- Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship -- The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption -- Between rights and needs -- The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity -- Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects -- Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family.Transracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its complex implications. In Claiming Others , Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption to the early nineteenth century, revealing its surprising centrality to American literature, law, and social thought. Jerng considers how adoption makes us rethink the parent-child bond as central to issues of race and nationality, showing the ways adoption also speaks to broader questions about our history and identity. He analyzes adoptionAdoption in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismInterracial adoption in literatureInterracial adoptionRace in literatureAdoption in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.Interracial adoption in literature.Interracial adoption.Race in literature.362.734810.9/35254Jerng Mark C938046MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828416703321Claiming others4042618UNINA