Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2011.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.