Kin of another kind
Subtitle: transracial adoption in American literature
By: Cynthia Callahan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472117581
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reading transracial adoption in American literature; title: Voluntary belonging: historical and cultural contexts; title: Passing for kin in Charles W. Chesnutt's "Her Virginia mammy" and the quarry; title: Unknowable origins in Kate Chopin's "Desire's baby" and William Faulkner's Light in August; title: Integrated families : Robert Boles's curling and Toni Morrison's Tar baby; title: Captivity and rescue in the fiction of Dallas Chief Eagle, Leslie Marmon Silko; title: Barbara Kingsolver, and Sherman Alexie; title: Adopting ambivalence in the fiction of Sui Sin Far, Anne Tyler, and Gish Jen.