Shackleton, Mark
International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Part I. Native North America
1. From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica: Transracial Adoption of Indigenous Children in the USA and Canada
Roger L. Nichols
2. Stimulating and Resisting Transborder Indigenous Adoptions in North America in the 1970s
Margaret D. Jacobs
3. “Disastrous Adoption”? Representations of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing
Mark Shackleton
4. Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan’s
Pirjo Ahokas
5. Sugarcoated Prejudice: Adoption and Transethnic Adoption in Forrest Carter’s
Bo Pettersson
Part II. Asia and America
6. Writing and Identity in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Life Narratives
Lena Ahlin
7. The (T)race of Trojan Horses: Transracial Adoption and Adoptive Being in Phan’s
Begoña Simal-González
Part III. Europe and America
8. Mythologizing Transnational and Transracial Adoption in Mona Friis Bertheussen’s
Alan Shima
9. Stories Matter: Contextualizing the Black German American Adoptee Experience(s)
Rosemarie Peña
10. Girls Interrupted, Business Unbegun, and Precarious Homes: Literary Representations of Transracial Adoption in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Fiction
Christine Vogt-William
11. “A daughter three thousand miles off”: Transcultural Adoption in Susan Warner’s
Jane Weiss
12. Cruel Chronologies: Ireland, America, and Transatlantic Adoption in
John McLeod
Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature
- Editor
- Shackleton, Mark
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 19 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319599427
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-59941-0