
Identity and the In-Between Space in Transracial Adoptee Literature: Making Space for the Missing Voice
Title:
Identity and the In-Between Space in Transracial Adoptee Literature: Making Space for the Missing Voice
Author:
Owens, Wendy M., author.
ISBN:
9780438071506
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Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (307 pages)
General Note:
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Babacar M'Baye Committee members: Kevin Floyd; Carla Goar; William Kalkhoff; Pam Lieske.
Abstract:
Within the past few years, adoptees have been challenging the positive adoption narratives about them by implementing corrective action movements through various scholarly, literary, and rhetorical media in order to claim their voices and agency. Exploring such movements, this dissertation focuses on several significant books about transnational adoption. These works are: Perpetual Child: Dismantling the Stereotype; Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption; Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology; Lucky Girl: A Memoir; Ghost of Sangju: A Memoir of Reconciliation; and Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea. The narratives individually and collectively offer alternative voices in the exploration of identities across borders, cultures, and boundaries in ways that intersect with immigration and ethnic literature. Each book strengthens the intersectionality conversation of transnational adoptees and the importance of understanding their in-between identities as unique. Moreover, each narrative reflects the transnational adoptees' temporary umbrella of white privilege and their 1.5 generation immigration status that set them apart from same-race and transracial domestically-adopted persons as well as their first-generation cohort and second-generation same-aged peers. Focusing on these dynamics, this dissertation attempts to privilege transnational adoptee books and scholarship that work to shift the conversations about orphan/adoptees to those created by adoptees. It aims to make a space for their missing voices.
Local Note:
School code: 0101
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