Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/35254 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Interracial adoption in literature | |
| Race in literature | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Kin of another kind |
| ISBN: | 9786613011664 |
| 9781283011662 | |
| 1283011662 | |
| 9780472027910 | |
| 0472027913 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824161603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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