International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica: Transracial Adoption of Indigenous Children in the USA and Canada

Chapter 2 Stimulating and Resisting Transborder Indigenous Adoptions in North America in the 1970s

Chapter 3 “Disastrous Adoption”? Representations of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing

Chapter 4 Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

Chapter 5 Sugarcoated Prejudice: Adoption and Transethnic Adoption in Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree

Chapter 6 Writing and Identity in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Life Narratives

Chapter 7 The (T)race of Trojan Horses: Transracial Adoption and Adoptive Being in Phan’s We Should Never Meet and Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth

Chapter 8 Mythologizing Transnational and Transracial Adoption in Mona Friis Bertheussen’s Twin Sisters: A World Apart

Chapter 9 Stories Matter: Contextualizing the Black German American Adoptee Experience(s)

Chapter 10 Girls Interrupted, Business Unbegun, and Precarious Homes: Literary Representations of Transracial Adoption in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Fiction

Chapter 11 “A daughter three thousand miles off”: Transcultural Adoption in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World

Chapter 12 Cruel Chronologies: Ireland, America, and Transatlantic Adoption in The Lost Child of Philomena Lee and Philomena