A01=Marianne Novy
Adoptee
Adoptees
Adoption
Adoption Agencies
Adoption Memoir
Adoption Studies
Adoptive Parent
Adoptive Parents
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Marianne Novy
automatic-update
Birthfamily
Birthmother
Birthparents
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSB
Category=JHBK
Category=JKSF
Category=VFVK
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_health-lifestyle
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Language_English
Memoir
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Reunion
softlaunch
Transracial Adoption
Product details
- ISBN 9781439925904
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Adoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and Jane Jeong Trenka experienced, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parents Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered.
Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the twenty-first century, by birthmothers, adoptees, and adoptive parents, about same-race and transracial adoption. These adoptees, she recounts, wanted to learn about their ancestry and appreciated adoptive parents who helped. Birthmother Amy Seek shows why open adoption is not simple, and many other memoirs tell stories that continue past reunion.
Adoption Memoirs will enlighten readers who lack experience with adoption and help those looking for a shared experience to also understand adoption from a different standpoint.
Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the twenty-first century, by birthmothers, adoptees, and adoptive parents, about same-race and transracial adoption. These adoptees, she recounts, wanted to learn about their ancestry and appreciated adoptive parents who helped. Birthmother Amy Seek shows why open adoption is not simple, and many other memoirs tell stories that continue past reunion.
Adoption Memoirs will enlighten readers who lack experience with adoption and help those looking for a shared experience to also understand adoption from a different standpoint.
Marianne Novy is Professor Emerita of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama and editor of Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture.
