Edited by Mark Shackleton · Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 · English
How are international adoption and adoptee lives represented in literature and culture? This edited collection brings literary and cultural analysis to questions of family, identity, race, and the stories through which adoption is understood.
Why we are reading it
A useful companion for readers interested in the relationship between lived experience and the narratives that circulate about adoption. Its cultural focus complements the historical approaches elsewhere in our reading list.
BGHRA connection
Rosemarie Peña contributes “Stories Matter: Contextualizing the Black German American Adoptee Experience(s).”
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Continue reading
Read alongside Adoption Across Race and Nation and adoptee memoirs such as Judy Fambrough-Billingsley’s Too Brown to Keep.
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