Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture
edited by Marianne Novy
University of Michigan Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-472-11181-7 | eISBN: 978-0-472-02494-0 | Paper: 978-0-472-03002-6 Library of Congress Classification PS228.A35I46 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9355
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.
Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
REVIEWS
"Well-informed essays about social and theoretical constructs determining who belongs to whom for which reasons and at which price(s), including forthright discussions of the essential subjects of motherhood and the 'natural'... Comprehensive and complex, this is an anthology certain to find wide readership."
---Choice, February 2002
— Choice
". . . a gem that any thinking person interested in adoption would enjoy. . . . [T]he best thing I have read on the subject in ages."
---Mary Anne Cohen, Origins, Spring 2002
— Mary Anne Cohen, Origins
"A remarkable anthology of scholarly views of adoption in literature---this book is a gem"
---Origins
— Origins
"If we are effectively to teach the literature of adoption, we must be able to help our students negotiate the social questions presented by the discursive and material practices that have defined this institution to date. Teachers and readers who want to engage in this enterprise will be particularly grateful to Novy's comprehensive introduction." ---Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
— Lynne Dickson Bruckner, Chatham College, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
"It will be welcome to anyone curious about or engaged in the dense and apparently already particularized study of adoption as a literary theme, cultural metaphor, and social practice."
---J. M. Baker, Jr., University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Fall 2002
— J. M. Baker, Jr., University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
"A timely and fascinating collection, Imagining Adoption holds a mirror up to the back of our social and mythic fabric, showing the warp of family romance shot through with a blood-red woof of adoption."
---Alison Booth, University of Virginia
— Alison Booth, University of Virginia
"A book on adoption that resonates with the contradictions, love loss, power, symbolism, fantasy, pain, and joy that is adoption! This book is a treasure."
---Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College
— Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College
"As the face of adoption is undergoing radical change both nationally and internationally, we can only be thankful for a volume like Imagining Adoption . Turning to literature, memoir, and film, [these essays] illuminate the psychological and ideological issues surrounding adoption in subtle and complex readings. Imagining Adoption adds a new chapter to the narrative and the fantasy that constitutes family today."
---Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College
— Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College
"A path-breaking anthology. I salute its intellectual bravery and its lucid framing of a vital topic of social and literary practice."
---Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
— Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagining Adoption / Marianne Novy
Adoption and the "Improvement of the Estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole
Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy
Outlaws, Outcasts, and Orphans / The Historical Imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett
From Charlotte to the Outposts of Empire: Troping Adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark
The Immaculate Deception: Adoption in Albee's Plays / Garry Leonard
"I Am Your Mother; She Was a Carrying Case": Adoption, Class, and Sexual Orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit / Margot Gayle Backus
A Junction of Amends: Sandra McPherson's Poetics of Adoption / Jan VanStavern
Adoption, Identity, and Voice: Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self / Nancy K. Gish
Genealogy Revised in Secrets and Lies / Paris De Soto
Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries: Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric / Judith Modell
"File It under 'L' for Love Child": Adoptive Policies and Practices in the Erdrich Tetralogy / Jill R. Deans
Adoption as National Fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners / Kristina Fagan
Should Whites Adopt African American Children?: One Family's Phenomenological Response / Martha Satz
Incorporating the Transnational Adoptee / Claudia Castañeda
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture
edited by Marianne Novy
University of Michigan Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-472-11181-7 eISBN: 978-0-472-02494-0 Paper: 978-0-472-03002-6
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.
Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
REVIEWS
"Well-informed essays about social and theoretical constructs determining who belongs to whom for which reasons and at which price(s), including forthright discussions of the essential subjects of motherhood and the 'natural'... Comprehensive and complex, this is an anthology certain to find wide readership."
---Choice, February 2002
— Choice
". . . a gem that any thinking person interested in adoption would enjoy. . . . [T]he best thing I have read on the subject in ages."
---Mary Anne Cohen, Origins, Spring 2002
— Mary Anne Cohen, Origins
"A remarkable anthology of scholarly views of adoption in literature---this book is a gem"
---Origins
— Origins
"If we are effectively to teach the literature of adoption, we must be able to help our students negotiate the social questions presented by the discursive and material practices that have defined this institution to date. Teachers and readers who want to engage in this enterprise will be particularly grateful to Novy's comprehensive introduction." ---Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
— Lynne Dickson Bruckner, Chatham College, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
"It will be welcome to anyone curious about or engaged in the dense and apparently already particularized study of adoption as a literary theme, cultural metaphor, and social practice."
---J. M. Baker, Jr., University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Fall 2002
— J. M. Baker, Jr., University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
"A timely and fascinating collection, Imagining Adoption holds a mirror up to the back of our social and mythic fabric, showing the warp of family romance shot through with a blood-red woof of adoption."
---Alison Booth, University of Virginia
— Alison Booth, University of Virginia
"A book on adoption that resonates with the contradictions, love loss, power, symbolism, fantasy, pain, and joy that is adoption! This book is a treasure."
---Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College
— Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College
"As the face of adoption is undergoing radical change both nationally and internationally, we can only be thankful for a volume like Imagining Adoption . Turning to literature, memoir, and film, [these essays] illuminate the psychological and ideological issues surrounding adoption in subtle and complex readings. Imagining Adoption adds a new chapter to the narrative and the fantasy that constitutes family today."
---Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College
— Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College
"A path-breaking anthology. I salute its intellectual bravery and its lucid framing of a vital topic of social and literary practice."
---Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
— Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagining Adoption / Marianne Novy
Adoption and the "Improvement of the Estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole
Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy
Outlaws, Outcasts, and Orphans / The Historical Imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett
From Charlotte to the Outposts of Empire: Troping Adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark
The Immaculate Deception: Adoption in Albee's Plays / Garry Leonard
"I Am Your Mother; She Was a Carrying Case": Adoption, Class, and Sexual Orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit / Margot Gayle Backus
A Junction of Amends: Sandra McPherson's Poetics of Adoption / Jan VanStavern
Adoption, Identity, and Voice: Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self / Nancy K. Gish
Genealogy Revised in Secrets and Lies / Paris De Soto
Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries: Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric / Judith Modell
"File It under 'L' for Love Child": Adoptive Policies and Practices in the Erdrich Tetralogy / Jill R. Deans
Adoption as National Fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners / Kristina Fagan
Should Whites Adopt African American Children?: One Family's Phenomenological Response / Martha Satz
Incorporating the Transnational Adoptee / Claudia Castañeda
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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with an electronic file for alternative access.
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