Imagining Adoption

by Novy, Marianne

• ISBN13: 9780472111817
• ISBN10: 0472111817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction Imagining Adoption	1	(16)
Marianne Novy
Adoption and the ``Improvement of the Estate'' in Trollope and Craik	17	(18)
Tess O'Toole
Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda	35	(22)
Marianne Novy
Outlaws, Outcasts, and Orphans The Historical Imagination and Anne of Green Gables	57	(26)
Beverly Crockett
Redefining ``Real'' Motherhood Representations of Adoptive Mothers, 1900-1950	83	(14)
Julie Berebitsky
From Charlotte to the Outposts of Empire Troping Adoption	97	(14)
Beverly Lyon Clark
The Immaculate Deception Adoption in Albee's Plays	111	(22)
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	133	(18)
Margot Gayle Backus
A Junction of Amends Sandra McPherson's Poetics of Adoption	151	(20)
Jan VanStavern
Adoption, Identity, and Voice Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self	171	(22)
Nancy K. Gish
Genealogy Revised in Secrets and Lies	193	(14)
Paris De Soto
Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric	207	(24)
Judith Modell
``File It under ''L`` for Love Child'' Adoptive Policies and Practices in the Erdrich Tetralogy	231	(20)
Jill R. Deans
Adoption as National Fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners	251	(16)
Kristina Fagan
Should Whites Adopt African American Children? One Family's Phenomenological Response	267	(10)
Martha Satz
Incorporating the Transnational Adoptee	277	(24)
Claudia Castaneda
Select Bibliography	301	(4)
Contributors	305	(4)
Index	309