Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture | 
 enlarge | Creator: Marianne Novy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0472111817
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9355
EAN: 9780472111817
ASIN: 0472111817
Publication Date: March 13, 2001
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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.
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Fascinating, accessible, thought-provoking November 9, 2003
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This anthology examines themes of adoption in drama, fiction, poetry, and film, from Shakespeare and Dickens up to "Secrets and Lies" and "Losing Isaiah." The authors examine older myths and stereotypes of adoption and adoptive mothers that we tend to forget in current conversations, such as the "shame" of illegitimate birth and "infertile" women. Imagining Adoption also covers current debates in the adoptive community on whether to pursue information on birth parents, open adoptions, and non-traditional families. More than interesting, this book is guaranteed to open a reader to many new insights about adoption and identity!
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