Claiming others [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption and national belonging / / Mark C. Jerng

• Autore: Jerng Mark C
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.734; 810.9/35254
• Soggetto topico: Adoption in literature; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Interracial adoption in literature; Interracial adoption; Race in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 adoption
• Titolo autorizzato: Claiming others
• ISBN: 0-8166-7516-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785687303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II