Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagining Adoption / Marianne Novy
Adoption and the "Improvement of the Estate" in Trollope and Craik / Tess O'Toole
Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Marianne Novy
Outlaws, Outcasts, and Orphans / The Historical Imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Beverly Crockett
Redefining "Real" Motherhood: Representations of Adoptive Mothers, 1900–1950 / Julie Berebitsky
From Charlotte to the Outposts of Empire: Troping Adoption / Beverly Lyon Clark
The Immaculate Deception: Adoption in Albee's Plays / Garry Leonard
"I Am Your Mother; She Was a Carrying Case": Adoption, Class, and Sexual Orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit / Margot Gayle Backus
A Junction of Amends: Sandra McPherson's Poetics of Adoption / Jan VanStavern
Adoption, Identity, and Voice: Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self / Nancy K. Gish
Genealogy Revised in Secrets and Lies / Paris De Soto
Natural Bonds, Legal Boundaries: Modes of Persuasion in Adoption Rhetoric / Judith Modell
"File It under 'L' for Love Child": Adoptive Policies and Practices in the Erdrich Tetralogy / Jill R. Deans
Adoption as National Fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners / Kristina Fagan
Should Whites Adopt African American Children?: One Family's Phenomenological Response / Martha Satz
Incorporating the Transnational Adoptee / Claudia Castañeda
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Contributors
Index