FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Imprint of Another Life

Margaret Homans
    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback
      YOU COULD EARN 0 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 0.00 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 0.00 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 0.00 with

      This product is either out of print or out of stock. Add it to your wishlist and we will automatically let you know if it comes back into stock. Add to Wishlist

      Adoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths. Adoptive families are made, not born; in the words of novelist Jeanette Winterson, “adopted children are self-invented because we have to be.” The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility shows some of the ways in which literary creation and a concept of adoption as a form of creativity make available new ways of thinking about adoption and what it means to be human.Underlying common beliefs about adoption, argues Margaret Homans, is the assumption that human qualities are innate and intrinsic, anassumption often held by adoptees and their families, sometimes at great emotional cost. This book explores representations of adoption - transracial, transnational, and domestic same-race adoption - that reimagine human possibility by questioning this assumption and conceiving of alternatives. The author explores a wide variety of worksranging from Silas Marner to Disney’s Mulan, including fiction, memoir, drama, documentary films, advice manuals, social science writing, andinterviews, to shed light on these questions.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Margaret Homans EAN: 9780472036349 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 481 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-01-09 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Sociology: family and relationships

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, USA.
      Adoption has a special relationship to fiction-making, and tends to generate stories rather than uncover bedrock truths. Adoptive families are made, not born; in the words of novelist Jeanette Winterson, “adopted children are self-invented because we have to be.” The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility shows some of the ways in which literary creation and a concept of adoption as a form of creativity make available new ways of thinking about adoption and what it means to be human.Underlying common beliefs about adoption, argues Margaret Homans, is the assumption that human qualities are innate and intrinsic, anassumption often held by adoptees and their families, sometimes at great emotional cost. This book explores representations of adoption - transracial, transnational, and domestic same-race adoption - that reimagine human possibility by questioning this assumption and conceiving of alternatives. The author explores a wide variety of worksranging from Silas Marner to Disney’s Mulan, including fiction, memoir, drama, documentary films, advice manuals, social science writing, andinterviews, to shed light on these questions.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Margaret Homans EAN: 9780472036349 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 481 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-01-09 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Sociology: family and relationships

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, USA.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account