Claiming others [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption and national belonging / / Mark C. Jerng
| Claiming others [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption and national belonging / / Mark C. Jerng |
| Autore | Jerng Mark C |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8166-7516-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460245103321 |
Jerng Mark C
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| Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 | ||
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Claiming others [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption and national belonging / / Mark C. Jerng
| Claiming others [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption and national belonging / / Mark C. Jerng |
| Autore | Jerng Mark C |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| ISBN | 0-8166-7516-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785687303321 |
Jerng Mark C
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| Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Kin of another kind [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan
| Kin of another kind [[electronic resource] ] : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan |
| Autore | Callahan Cynthia <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2011 |
| 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-01166-2
9786613011664 0-472-02791-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465289103321 |
Callahan Cynthia <1972->
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| Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan
| Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan |
| Autore | Callahan Cynthia <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011 |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-283-01166-2
9786613011664 0-472-02791-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791807603321 |
Callahan Cynthia <1972->
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| Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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