Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / / edited by Marianne Novy
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| Titolo: |
Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / / edited by Marianne Novy
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
NovyMarianne <1945->
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| 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 CastanĚeda. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining adoption |
| ISBN: | 1-283-11375-9 |
| 9786613113757 | |
| 0-472-02494-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781479503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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