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Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption

By John Mcleod

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About the book

Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption is the first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural adoption from contemporary Britain, Ireland and America: fictions, films and memoirs made by those within the adoption 'triad' or those concerned with the pain and possibilities of transcultural adoption. Wh...Show more

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ISBN

9781472590381

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2015

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Edition

1

Original title

Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption

Format

Hardcover

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