Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories by Novy, Marianne

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

Adoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs...
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Author: Marianne Novy
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Language: English
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Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories by Novy, Marianne

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

¥10,889

Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories

¥10,889
Author: Marianne Novy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Marianne Novy
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 06/28/2024
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781439925904

About the Author
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.

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