Author : John McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 1474258832
Life Lines
John McLeod
Life Lines Writing Transcultural Adoption
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Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption
John McLeod
Author : John McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472590398
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption by John McLeod Pdf
Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption is the first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural adoption from contemporary Britain, Ireland and America: fictions, films and memoirs made by those within the adoption 'triad' or those concerned with the pain and possibilities of transcultural adoption. While acknowledging the sobering inequalities which engender transcultural adoptions and the lasting upset of sundered relations, at the same time John McLeod considers the transfigurative and creative propensity of imagining transcultural adoption as radically calling into question ideas of biogenetic attachment, racial genealogy, cultural identity and normative family-making. How might the predicament of 'being adopted' transculturally enable the transformative agency of 'adoptive being' for all? Exploring works by Andrea Levy, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Sebastian Barry, Caryl Phillips, Jackie Kay and several others, Life Lines makes a groundbreaking intervention in such fields as transcultural studies, postcolonial thought, and adoption theory and practice.
International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Mark Shackleton
Author : Mark Shackleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319599427
International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture by Mark Shackleton Pdf
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.
Experiments in Life-Writing
Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Author : Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319554143
Experiments in Life-Writing by Lucia Boldrini,Julia Novak Pdf
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction
Helga Ramsey-Kurz,Melissa Kennedy
Author : Helga Ramsey-Kurz,Melissa Kennedy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004359581
Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction by Helga Ramsey-Kurz,Melissa Kennedy Pdf
The essays collected in Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction “follow the money” to illuminate literature’s keen awareness of the multiple and often conflicting meanings of wealth and commons in formerly colonized spaces.
Adopting for God
Soojin Chung
Author : Soojin Chung
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479808885
Adopting for God by Soojin Chung Pdf
Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo taken in 1955, Harry and Bertha Holt can be seen descending from a Pan American World Airways airplane with twelve Asian babies—eight for their family and four for other families. As adoptive parents and evangelical Christians who identified themselves as missionaries, the Holts unwittingly became both the metaphorical and literal parental figures in the growing movement to adopt transnationally. Missionaries pioneered the transnational adoption movement in America. Though their role is known, there has not yet been a full historical look at their theological motivations—which varied depending on whether they were evangelically or ecumenically focused—and what the effects were for American society, relations with Asia, and thinking about race more broadly. Adopting for God shows that, somewhat surprisingly, both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters. By questioning the perspective that equates missionary humanitarianism with unmitigated cultural imperialism, this book offers a more nuanced picture of the rise of an important twentieth-century movement: the evangelization of adoption and the awakening of a new type of Christian mission.
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic
Gigi Adair
Author : Gigi Adair
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624540
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic by Gigi Adair Pdf
This book combines insights from postcolonial, queer and diaspora studies to consider the meanings of kinship in contemporary black Atlantic fiction. Diasporic displacement generates new understandings and new narratives of kinship. An analysis of kinship is thus essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader
Emily Hipchen
Author : Emily Hipchen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000990034
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader by Emily Hipchen Pdf
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history, literature, political science, and other humanities. Divided into three major parts, this volume traces the history of adoption and its analogues, identifies major movements in the practice, and illuminates comprehensive disciplinary frameworks that underpin the field’s approaches. This key scholarly and pedagogical tool includes excerpts from scholars such as Judith Butler, Dorothy Roberts, Margaret Homans, Margaret D. Jacobs, Arissa Oh, Marianne Novy, and Kori Graves. It explores a variety of representations of adoption and embraces interdisciplinary discussions of reproduction as it intersects race, ethnicity, power relations, the concept of nation, history, the idea of childhood, and many other contemporary concerns. The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader provides a single-volume resource for instructors or students who want a convenient collection of foundational materials for teaching or reference, and for researchers newly discovering the field. This volume’s humanities perspective makes it the first of its kind to collect secondary materials in Critical Adoption Studies for researchers, who, in taking up cultural representations of adoption, examine cultural contexts not for their impact on the practice over time but for their richness of engagement with the human experience of belonging, kinship, and identity.
Doing Family in Second-Generation British Migration Literature
Corinna Assmann
Author : Corinna Assmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110605082
Doing Family in Second-Generation British Migration Literature by Corinna Assmann Pdf
Due to the large-scale global transformations of the 20th century, migration literature has become a vibrant genre over the last decades. In these novels, issues of transcultural identity and belonging naturally feature prominently. This study takes a closer look at the ways in which the idea of family informs processes of identity construction. It explores changing roles and meanings of the diasporic family as well as intergenerational family relations in a migration setting in order to identify the specific challenges, problems, and possibilities that arise in this context. This book builds on insights from different fields of family research (e.g. sociology, psychology, communication studies, memory studies) to provide a conceptual framework for the investigation of synchronic and diachronic family constellations and connections. The approach developed in this study not only sheds new light on contemporary British migration literature but can also prove fruitful for analyses of families in literature more generally. By highlighting the relevance and multifaceted nature of doing family, this study also offers new perspectives for transcultural memory studies.
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary'
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004406742
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' by Anonim Pdf
What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory.
Community in Contemporary British Fiction
Sara Upstone,Peter Ely
Author : Sara Upstone,Peter Ely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350244047
Community in Contemporary British Fiction by Sara Upstone,Peter Ely Pdf
Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present. Including an extended critical introduction that positions the individual chapters in relation to broader conceptual questions, chapters combine close reading and engagement with the latest theories and concepts to engage with the complex regionalities of the United Kingdom, with representation of writers from all parts of the UK including Northern Ireland. Including specific focus on the most challenging issues for community in the past five years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis, with a broader understanding of themes of local and national belonging, this book offers detailed discussions of writers including Ali Smith, Niall Griffiths, John McGregor, Max Porter, Amanda Craig, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe, Bernie McGill, Jan Carson, Guy Gunaratne, Anthony Cartright, Barney Farmer, Maggie Gee and Sarah Hall. Demonstrating some of the resources that literature can offer for a renewed understanding of community, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how British Literature contributes to our understanding of society in both the past and present, and how such understanding can potentially help us to shape the future.
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
Deirdre Osborne
Author : Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107139244
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010) by Deirdre Osborne Pdf
"Post-World War II mass migration to Great Britain altered its demographic composition more markedly than in any other period in its history, resulting in a modern multicultural nation state shaped by the ethnic diversity of its citizenry. Populations from African, Caribbean, and South Asian locations arriving in Britain post-war brought diasporic sensibilities and literary heritages that have profoundly transformed British national culture, leading to a more complex and inclusive sense of its past. The Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) examines the creative impact of this rich infusion upon English literature against the backdrop of the seismic social and economic changes triggered by colonialism and migration, multiculturalism, and contemporary globalization"--
Quest for the Unity of Knowledge
David Lowenthal
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780429876431
Quest for the Unity of Knowledge by David Lowenthal Pdf
Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against the arts and humanities. Scientists generally laud and seek convergence. Artists and humanists deplore amalgamation as a threat to humane values. These opposing perspectives flamed into hostility in the 1950s "Two Cultures" clash. They culminate today in new efforts to conjoin insights into physical nature and human culture, and new fears lest such syntheses submerge what the arts and humanities most value. This book, stemming from David Lowenthal’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, explores the Two Cultures quarrel’s underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education, religion, genetics, race relations, heritage governance, and environmental policy. Aimed at a general academic audience, Quest for the Unity of Knowledge especially targets those in conservation, ecology, history of ideas, museology, and heritage studies.
Cross-Cultural Adoption
Caryn Abramowitz,Amy Coughlin
Author : Caryn Abramowitz,Amy Coughlin
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1621571866
Cross-Cultural Adoption by Caryn Abramowitz,Amy Coughlin Pdf
Families who adopt children from other countries are faced with myriad questions—from friends, coworkers, family members, classmates, and caretakers alike. If left unanswered, these questions can spawn misunderstanding and hurtful remarks capable of shattering a vulnerable child's sense of belonging: "She's not my real cousin! She's Chinese!" Drawing from their experiences as adoptive parents of foreign-born children, authors Caryn Abramowitz and Amy Coughlin give us Cross-Culture Adoption, a unique guidebook to help relatives and friends of adoptive families address important questions before everyone gathers around the dinner table. International adoption rates have increased by more than 300 percent in the last decade alone. Cross-Culture Adoption responds to this face of the American family by providing you accessbile answers and information on this often sensitive subject. Written by two adoptive mothers, Cross-Culture Adoption responds to the changing face of American families by providing accessible and extremely useful information in response to some of the most common—and toughest—questions asked about cross-culture adoption. It is an invaluable learning tool for anyone whole life is touched by international adoption. Whether you're a parent or a grandparent, a teacher or a bus driver, a Little-League coach or a Girl Scout troop leader, you can make a difference. With support and understanding, you can let her know that no matter where she came from, she belongs.
Selling Transracial Adoption
Elizabeth Raleigh
Author : Elizabeth Raleigh
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781439914786
Selling Transracial Adoption by Elizabeth Raleigh Pdf
"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and counselors. Taking a market approach that treats adoptive parents as consumers and children as commodities, Raleigh brings together interviews with adoption practitioners, participant observation at adoption information sessions, and adoption statistics in order to demonstrate how the downturn in supply of "adoptable honorary white children" (which she defines as Asian and hispanic children) led to the increased popularity of the transracial adoption of foreign-born and biracial black children.