Claiming others : transracial adoption and national belonging /

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"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, revealin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jerng, Mark C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Interracial adoption in literature.
Adoption in literature.
Race in literature.
Interracial adoption.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Adoption interraciale dans la littérature.
Adoption dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Adoption interraciale.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood
  • On the borders of kinship
  • Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820s
  • 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.

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