Reading adoption : family and difference in fiction and drama
"Reading Adoption explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption, probing how these literary representations shape cultural expectations of adoption and reunion. Through careful readings of works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Albee, and others, Marianne Novy suggests how fiction has contributed to general perceptions of adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. She observes how these works address the question of what makes a parent, as she identifies repeated themes such as differences between adoptive parents and children, fantasies of mirroring between adoptees and birth parents, and the relationship between nature and nurture
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
9780472115075, 0472115073
57695047
Reading from an Adopted Position
Oedipus: The Shamed Searcher-Hero and the Definition of Parenthood
Adoption and Shakespearean Families: Nature, Nurture, and Resemblance
Adoption in the Developing British Novel: Stigma, Social Protest, and Gender
Choices of Parenthood, Identity, and Nation in George Eliot's Adoption Novels
Commodified Adoption, the Search Movement, and the Adoption Triangle in American Drama since Albee
Nurture, Loss, and Cherokee Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Novels of Cross-Cultural Adoption