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Margaret Homans - The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility - 9780472118885 - V9780472118885
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The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

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Description for The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility Hardcover. How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.

The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility addresses a series of questions about common beliefs about adoption. Underlying these beliefs is the assumption that human qualities are innate and intrinsic, an assumption often held by adoptees and their families, sometimes at great emotional cost. This book explores representations of adoption—transracial, transnational, and domestic same-race adoption—that reimagine human possibility by questioning this assumption and conceiving of alternatives.

Literary scholar Margaret Homans examines fiction making’s special relationship to themes of adoption, an “as if” form of family making, fabricated or fictional instead of biological or “real.” Adoption has tended ... Read more

The texts examined include fiction (e.g., classic novels such as Silas Marner, What Maisie Knew, and Beloved); memoirs by adoptees, adoptive parents, and birthmothers; drama, documentary films, advice manuals, social science writing; and published interviews with adoptees, parents, and birth parents. Along the way the book tracks the quests of adoptees who, whether or not they meet their original families, must construct their own stories rather than finding them; follows transnational adoptees as they return, hopes held high, to Korea and China; looks over the shoulders of a generation of girls adopted from China as they watch Disney’s iconic Mulan, with its alluring story of destiny written on the skin; and listens to birthmothers as they struggle to tell painful secrets held for decades.

This book engages in debates within adoption studies, women’s and gender studies, transnational studies, and ethnic studies; it will appeal to literary scholars and critics, including specialists in memoir or narrative theory, and to general readers interested in adoption and in race.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118885
SKU
V9780472118885
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About Margaret Homans
Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.

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