Imagining adoption : essays on literature and culture
Imagining adoption / Adoption and the "improvement of the estate" in Trollope and Craik / Adoption in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda / Outlaws, outcasts, and orphans: the historical imagination and Anne of Green Gables / Redefining "real" motherhood: representations of adoptive mothers, 1900-1950 / From Charlotte to the outposts of empire: troping adoption / Immaculate deception: adoption in Albee's plays / "I am your mother; she was a carrying case": adoption, class, and sexual orientation in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Junction of amends: Sandra McPherson's poetics of adoption / Adoption, identity, and voice: Jackie Kay's inventions of self / Genealogy revised in Secrets and lies / Natural bonds, legal boundaries: modes of persuasion in adoption rhetoric / "File it under 'L' for love child": adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy / Adoption as national fantasy in Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in heaven and Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Should whites adopt African American children? One family's phenomenological response / Incorporating the transnational adoptee
