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Title Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture / edited by Marianne Novy.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.
©2001

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Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 316 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303) and index.
Contents 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 -- Redefining "real" motherhood: representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 / Julie Berebitsky -- From Charlotte to the outposts of empire: troping adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark -- 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 -- 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Adoption in literature.
Adoption in literature.
Adoption -- English-speaking countries.
Adoption.
English-speaking countries.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-2000.
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Novy, Marianne, 1945-
Other Form: Print version: Imagining adoption. 1st pbk. ed. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004, ©2001 9780472030026 (OCoLC)54056790
ISBN 9780472024940 (electronic book)
0472024949 (electronic book)
9780472030026
0472030027
0472111817
9780472111817