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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lee, Jieun, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]
Series:	Formations: adoption, kinship, and culture.
Subjects:	Drama > 21st century > History and criticism. Intercountry adoption in literature. Koreans in literature. Theater > History > 21st century. Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Unsettling transnational adoption in contemporary theater and performance
Maternal resurrection : birth search and reunion on Korean stages
Bodily testimony : Korean American women adoptees' autobiographical solo performances
Contingent belonging : Korean adoptees and adoption communities imagined in US theater
Decolonial discomfort : extraordinary adoption stories beyond the Korea-US cartography
Onstage and offstage : imagining transnational adoption within and beyond birth search and reunion.