Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

Author:   Mark C. Jerng
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816669585


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark C. Jerng
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780816669585


ISBN 10:   0816669589
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 November 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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"Contents Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood I. On the Borders of Kinship 1. Competing Logics of Possession: Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s 2. Unmanageable Attachments: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship 3. The Character of Race: Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption II. Between Rights and Needs 4. The Right to Belong: Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity 5. Resisting Recognition: Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects 6: Making Family ""Look Like Real"": Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family Formation Acknowledgments Notes Index"

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<p> Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama


Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama


Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama


<i>Claiming Others</i> is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of <i>Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama</i></p>


Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama


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Mark C. Jerng is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

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