Adoption Life Writing: Origins And Other Ghosts
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Adoption Life Writing: Origins and Other Ghosts” by Emily Hipchen and Jill R. Deans
“‘Has a Mother a Right to Her Children?’: Fanny Fern’s Urban Domesticity and the ‘Birth’ of Foster Care and Adoption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America” by Lori Askeland
“Bastard Logic and the Epics of Female Illegitimacy” by Carolyn Kraus
“Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: Autobiography and the Burdens of Heritage” by Elise Miller
“The Birth of Contemporary Adoption Autobiography: Florence Fisher and Betty Jean Lifton” by Jill R. Deans
“Performing Adoption and Adopting Identities in Reconstruction” by Darcy P.Y. Ballantyne
“Rethinking Transracial Adoption: Reading Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers” by Katharine Cockin
Other Essays
“This is My Life: Roseanne, Celebrity, and Autobiography” by Laura Laffrado
Reviews
Translating One’s Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography by Mary Besemeres (Peter Lang, 2002). Reviewed by Susan Tridgell
Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. Buss (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2002). Reviewed by Rose Norman
Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France by Nicholas Paige (U of Pennsylvania P, 2001). Reviewed by Mary C. Elkman
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