International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture: Transnational, Transracial and Transcultural Narratives

ISBN-13: 9783319867397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 306 str.

Mark Shackleton

Spis treści

1.  Roger L. Nichols: From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica: Transracial Adoption of Indigenous Children in the U.S. and Canada.- 2. Margaret D. Jacobs:  Stimulating and Resisting Transborder Indigenous Adoptions in North America in the 1970s.- 3. Mark Shackleton: “Disastrous Adoption”? Representations of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Disability in Native North American Writing.- 4. Pirjo Ahokas: Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer.- 5.Bo Pettersson: Sugarcoated Prejudice: Adoption and Transethnic Adoption in Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree.- 6. Lena Ahlin: Writing and Identity in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Life Narratives.- 7. Begoña Simal-Gonzalez: 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&

lt;.- 8. Alan Shima: Mythologizing Transnational and Transracial Adoption in Mona Friis Bertheussen’s Twin Sisters: A World Apart.- 9.Rosemarie Peña: Stories Matter: Contextualizing the Black German American Adoptee Experience(s).- 10Christine Vogt-William: Girls Interrupted, Business Unbegun and Precarious Homes: Literary Representations of Transracial Adoption in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Fiction.- 11. Jane Weiss: “A daughter three thousand miles off”: Transcultural adoption in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World.- 12. John McLeod: Cruel Chronologies: Ireland, America and Transatlantic Adoption in The Lost Child of Philomena Lee and Philomena.

O autorze

Mark Shackleton is Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Moving Outward: The Development of Charles Olson’s Use of Myth (1993) and has edited a number of volumes on North American studies including Migration, Preservation and Change (1999), Roots and Renewal (2001), and First and Other Nations (2005).