Life lines : writing transcultural adoption /
spine title : Life lines.
John McLeod.
- ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
- New horizons in contemporary writing. .
- New horizons in contemporary writing. .
Includes bibliographical references : (pages 234-240) and index.
Introduction : transcultural adoption and adoptive being -- Secrets : Mike Leigh, Andrea Levy, Mei-Ling Hopgood -- Histories : E. R. Braithwaite, Toni Morrison, Sebastian Barry -- Traces : Hannah Pool, Buchi Emecheta, Catherine McKinley -- Bearings : Barbara Kingsolver, Caryl Phillips, Jackie Kay -- Coda : Victoria Station, 1969/2015.
'The first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural adoption from contemporary Britain, Ireland and America fictions, films and memoirs made by those within the adoption'triad' or those concerned with the part and pain and possibilities of transcultural adoption.'
1472590384 9781472590381 RM454.30
Interracial adoption in literature. Intercountry adoption. English literature--History and criticism.