Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Callahan, Cynthia, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Interracial adoption in literature.
Race in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Adoption interraciale dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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