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The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central
source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental
questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of
family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history,
literature, political science, and other humanities. Divided into
three major sections, this volume traces the history of adoption
and its analogues, identifies major movements in the practice, and
illuminates comprehensive disciplinary frameworks that underpin the
field’s approaches. This key scholarly and pedagogical tool
includes excerpts from scholars such as Judith Butler, Dorothy
Roberts, Margaret Homans, Margaret D. Jacobs, Arissa Oh, Marianne
Novy, and Kori Graves, exploring a variety of representations of
adoption and embracing interdisciplinary discussions of
reproduction as it intersects race, ethnicity, power-relations, the
concept of nation, history, the idea of childhood, and many other
contemporary concerns. The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies
Reader provides a single-volume resource for instructors or
students who want a convenient collection of foundational materials
for teaching or reference and for researchers newly discovering the
field. This volume’s humanities perspective makes it the first of
its kind to collect secondary materials in Critical Adoption
Studies for researchers, who, in taking up cultural representations
of adoption, examine cultural contexts not for their impact on the
practice over time but for their richness of engagement with the
human experience of belonging, kinship, and identity.
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central
source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental
questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of
family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history,
literature, political science, and other humanities. Divided into
three major sections, this volume traces the history of adoption
and its analogues, identifies major movements in the practice, and
illuminates comprehensive disciplinary frameworks that underpin the
field’s approaches. This key scholarly and pedagogical tool
includes excerpts from scholars such as Judith Butler, Dorothy
Roberts, Margaret Homans, Margaret D. Jacobs, Arissa Oh, Marianne
Novy, and Kori Graves, exploring a variety of representations of
adoption and embracing interdisciplinary discussions of
reproduction as it intersects race, ethnicity, power-relations, the
concept of nation, history, the idea of childhood, and many other
contemporary concerns. The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies
Reader provides a single-volume resource for instructors or
students who want a convenient collection of foundational materials
for teaching or reference and for researchers newly discovering the
field. This volume’s humanities perspective makes it the first of
its kind to collect secondary materials in Critical Adoption
Studies for researchers, who, in taking up cultural representations
of adoption, examine cultural contexts not for their impact on the
practice over time but for their richness of engagement with the
human experience of belonging, kinship, and identity.
The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key
theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any
critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.
Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general
introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three
sections-Foundations, Transformations, and Futures-each with its
own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections,
including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity;
reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma;
agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives;
subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and,
ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of
methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical
study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history,
among others.
The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader collects together key
theoretical essays in the field, creating a solid base for any
critical study of autobiography, biography, or life writing.
Beginning with a foreword by Sidonie Smith and a general
introduction to the collection, the book is then divided into three
sections-Foundations, Transformations, and Futures-each with its
own introduction. Significant themes weave throughout the sections,
including canonicity; genre, modality, and interdisciplinarity;
reclamation of texts; disability and the contested body; trauma;
agency, silence, and voicing; celebrity culture; digital lives;
subjects in the margins; postcolonialism; posthumanism; and,
ecocriticism. Attention has also been given to a variety of
methodological approaches, such as archival research, genealogical
study, DNA testing, autoethnography, testimonio, and oral history,
among others.
This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of
Dominican American author Julia Alvarez. A prolific writer of
nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children
s literature, Alvarez has garnered numerous international
accolades, including the impressive F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for
Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. She was one of only
ten poets invited to write for President Obama s inauguration in
2009, and her "In the Time of the Butterflies" was selected as a
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, putting her in the
company of Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Harper Lee. Yet,
despite Alvarez s commercial success and flourishing critical
reputation, much of the published scholarship has focused on her
two best-known novels "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "How the
Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents."
Moving beyond Alvarez s more recognizable work, the contributors
here approach her wider canon from different points of access and
with diverging critical tools. This enriches current discussions on
the construction of selves in life writing, and nonfiction more
generally, and furthers our understanding of these selves as
particular kinds of participants in the creation of nation and
place. In addition, this book provides fresh insight for
transnational feminist studies and makes a meaningful contribution
to the broader study of the gendered diaspora, as it positions
Alvarez scholarship in a global context."
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