Unsettling acts : performing transnational adoption /
"Analyzes how contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption intervene in longstanding transnational adoption narratives, which have essentialized adoptees through ethnonationalist, gendered, and postwar humanitarian themes. Shows how multiple adoptee-centered wo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Formations: adoption, kinship, and culture.
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| Summary: | "Analyzes how contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption intervene in longstanding transnational adoption narratives, which have essentialized adoptees through ethnonationalist, gendered, and postwar humanitarian themes. Shows how multiple adoptee-centered works performed in South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Denmark reimagine and remake the adoptee experience"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814215838 0814215831 9780814259382 0814259383 |