Reading adoption : family and difference in fiction and drama
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Reading adoption : family and difference in fiction and drama
University of Michigan Press, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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A uniquely personal exploration of adoption in literature, probing the cultural fictions that these literary representations have perpetuated Reading Adoption explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption, and reveals how these representations have contributed to general perceptions of adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. Marianne Novy reads a range of authors, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Dickens, Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Albee and others, to observe how these works address the question of what makes a parent. She scrutinizes basic themes that repeat throughout, e.g., the difference between adoptive parents and children, the mirroring between adoptees and their birth parents, and the romanticization of the theme of lost family and recovered identity. Engagingly written from Novy's dual perspectives as critic and adult adoptee, the book combines the techniques of literary and feminist scholarship with memoir, shedding new light on familiar texts.
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