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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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International adoption in North American literature and culture

transnational, transracial and transcultural narratives

edited byMark Shackleton

Abstract

This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen more positively as what has been called the richness of "adoptive being"? The areas covered include Native North American adoption policies and the responses of Native North American writers themselves to these policies of assimilation. This might be termed "adoption from within." "Adoption from without" (transnational adoption) is primarily dealt with in articles discussing Chinese and Korean adoptions in the US. The third section concerns such issues as the multiple forms that adoption can take, notions of adoption and identity, adoption and the family, and the problems of adoption. 

Details | Table of Contents

From the sixties scoop to baby Veronica

transracial adoption of indigenous children in the USA and Canada

Roger L. Nichols

pp.3-26

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_1
"Disastrous adoption"?

representations of fetal alcohol syndrome and disability in recent native North American writing

Mark Shackleton

pp.51-68

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_3
Sugarcoated prejudice

adoption and transethnic adoption in Forrest Carter's the education of little tree

Bo Pettersson

pp.99-118

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_5
The (t)race of Trojan horses

transracial adoption and adoptive being in phan's we should never meet and truong's bitter in the mouth

Begoña Simal-González

pp.143-171

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_7
Stories matter

contextualizing the black German American adoptee experience(s)

Rosemarie Peña

pp.197-220

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_9
Girls interrupted, business unbegun, and precarious homes

literary representations of transracial adoption in contemporary South Asian diasporic women's fiction

Christine Vogt-William

pp.221-253

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_10
"A daughter three thousand miles off"

transcultural adoption in Susan Warner's the wide, wide world

Jane Weiss

pp.255-276

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_11
Cruel chronologies

Ireland, America, and transatlantic adoption in the lost child of Philomena Lee and Philomena

John McLeod

pp.277-295

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7_12

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2017

Pages: 306

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59942-7

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-59941-0

ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-59942-7

Full citation:

Shackleton Mark (2017) International adoption in North American literature and culture: transnational, transracial and transcultural narratives. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.