Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Callahan, Cynthia, 1972-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Race in literature. Interracial adoption in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : reading transracial adoption in American literature
Voluntary belonging: historical and cultural contexts
Passing for kin in Charles W. Chesnutt's "Her Virginia mammy" and the quarry
Unknowable origins in Kate Chopin's "Desire's baby" and William Faulkner's Light in August
Integrated families : Robert Boles's curling and Toni Morrison's Tar baby
Captivity and rescue in the fiction of Dallas Chief Eagle, Leslie Marmon Silko
Barbara Kingsolver, and Sherman Alexie
Adopting ambivalence in the fiction of Sui Sin Far, Anne Tyler, and Gish Jen.