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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

Karen Dubinsky
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587701
Published: 01 June 2012
...Karen Dubinsky Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature . By Callahan Cynthia . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 190 pp. $70.00 . Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging . By Jerng Mark C. . Minneapolis : Univ...
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American Literature Index to Volume 84 (March 2012–December 2012)

American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2082227
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Karen. Review: Callahan, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adop- tion in American Literature, 452–54. Review: Jerng, Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging, 452–54. Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity,” 409–35...
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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature

Leslie Bow
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529167
Published: 01 June 2019
... invoking the divisiveness of US racial history. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 picture books Asian American literature critical race studies transracial adoption biodiversity Deep puritanical distrust of fantasy . . . comes out often among people truly and seriously...
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An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels

Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels View PDF for article titled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”

Nicole M. Merola
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587656
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.” View PDF for article titled, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”
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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest

Amy T. Hamilton
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587665
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the American slave system. Through such forceful readings, we begin to see along with Young the begin- nings, indeed, of a movement. Suzanne Schneider, Bryn Mawr College DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor...
View articletitled, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest View PDF for article titled, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature

Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature View PDF for article titled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

Jeehyun Lim
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587683
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the American slave system. Through such forceful readings, we begin to see along with Young the begin- nings, indeed, of a movement. Suzanne Schneider, Bryn Mawr College DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor...
View articletitled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave View PDF for article titled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body View PDF for article titled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
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The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History

Timothy Parrish
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 454–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587710
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the American slave system. Through such forceful readings, we begin to see along with Young the begin- nings, indeed, of a movement. Suzanne Schneider, Bryn Mawr College DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor...
View articletitled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History View PDF for article titled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

Audra Simpson
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 457–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587719
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty View PDF for article titled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
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Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

John Morán González
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 459–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587728
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno View PDF for article titled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing

Jean Marie Lutes
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 461–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587737
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing View PDF for article titled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing
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The American Essay in the American Century / Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans

Nancy McCabe
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587746
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the American slave system. Through such forceful readings, we begin to see along with Young the begin- nings, indeed, of a movement. Suzanne Schneider, Bryn Mawr College DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor...
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The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth

Sunhay You
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679237
Published: 01 September 2023
... . 1992 . La jouissance: Un concept lacanien. Paris : Point Hors Ligne . Callahan Cynthia . 2011 . Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . Cheng Anne . 2001 . Melancholy of Race . New York : Oxford Univ. Press...
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The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity

Alexander Mazzaferro
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 601–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616271
Published: 01 September 2020
... and invoked “a racial signifier of color to abstractly refer to a . . . transracial political collectivity” (22). Steeped in the figurative power of language, these concepts allow Mahler to recover her archive’s political-philosophical complexities. Her second chapter examines depictions of the Black...
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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335633
Published: 01 March 2019
... national identities in the early modern world, Glaser’s Borrowed Voices investigates post–World War II Jewish writers’ adopting or fantasizing about the voices and bodies of African Americans in their self-fashioning. In her well-written and wide-ranging study of late twentieth-century Jewish novels...
View articletitled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy View PDF for article titled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s

Timo Müller
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886115
Published: 01 June 2015
...) as a nodal point in this development and argues that the dynamic behind these blues sonnets is best described, in terminol- ogy developed by Matthew Hart (2010), as “synthetic vernacular writ- ing.” As a second step, the essay traces the adoption and transformation of Hughes’s strategies in the sonnets...
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The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction

Laila Amine
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 739–768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329578
Published: 01 December 2015
... galvanized by masculine aspirations and brotherly bonds. I contend that Wright, Baldwin, and Smith adopted interracial sexu- ality and homosocial bonding as preeminent modalities for thinking about different kinds of affiliations in Paris. Both tropes of romance and brotherhood navigate a Parisian...
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