ABSTRACT:This article engages in an in-depth critical reading of Julayne Lee's poetry collection, Not My White Savior (2018). It focuses on how Lee's lyrics involve forms of repetition and variation to institute a reparative aesthetic. The article considers Lee's historical excavation of the Korean War and the violent manifestations that have occurred since the Armistice was signed in 1953. The article proceeds with readings that cover a variety of issues, including overseas Korean adoption, the plight of single Korean mothers, the need to develop more robust models for alternative kinships, as well as the speculative tropes deployed by Lee in these various poetic depictions. Finally, the article persistently investigates poetic techniques, including the refrain and the repetend, as part of Lee's lyrical approaches. Lee's lyric project ultimately reimagines overseas adopted Koreans as a fellowship, one promoting activism and social justice.
{"title":"\"This is Cousinland\": The Korean War, Post-Armistice Poetics, and Reparative Aesthetics in Julayne Lee's Not My White Savior","authors":"S. Sohn","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article engages in an in-depth critical reading of Julayne Lee's poetry collection, Not My White Savior (2018). It focuses on how Lee's lyrics involve forms of repetition and variation to institute a reparative aesthetic. The article considers Lee's historical excavation of the Korean War and the violent manifestations that have occurred since the Armistice was signed in 1953. The article proceeds with readings that cover a variety of issues, including overseas Korean adoption, the plight of single Korean mothers, the need to develop more robust models for alternative kinships, as well as the speculative tropes deployed by Lee in these various poetic depictions. Finally, the article persistently investigates poetic techniques, including the refrain and the repetend, as part of Lee's lyrical approaches. Lee's lyric project ultimately reimagines overseas adopted Koreans as a fellowship, one promoting activism and social justice.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129244492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Selman, Peter. “Trends in Intercountry Adoption: Analysis of Data from 20 Receiving Countries, 1998–2004.” Journal of Population Research, vol. 23, no. 2, 2017, pp. 183–204. Tigervall, Carina, and Tobias Hübinette. “Adoption with Complications: Conversations with Adoptees and Adoptive Parents on Everyday Racism and Ethnic Identity.” International Social Work, vol. 53, no. 4, 2010, pp. 489–509.
塞尔曼,彼得。跨国收养趋势:1998-2004年20个接收国数据分析。《人口研究杂志》，第23卷，第2号。2, 2017, pp. 183-204。Tigervall, Carina和Tobias h binette。《复杂的收养:与被收养者和养父母关于日常种族主义和民族认同的对话》《国际社会工作》，第53卷，第53期。4, 2010, pp. 489-509。
{"title":"Adoption Experiences and the Tracing and Narration of Family Genealogies ed. by Derek Kirton (review)","authors":"E. Hoult","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Selman, Peter. “Trends in Intercountry Adoption: Analysis of Data from 20 Receiving Countries, 1998–2004.” Journal of Population Research, vol. 23, no. 2, 2017, pp. 183–204. Tigervall, Carina, and Tobias Hübinette. “Adoption with Complications: Conversations with Adoptees and Adoptive Parents on Everyday Racism and Ethnic Identity.” International Social Work, vol. 53, no. 4, 2010, pp. 489–509.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126140026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Historically, adoption agencies portrayed international adoption as the salvation of orphans. Our taxonomic and transitivity analysis examines how bloggers on one US-based adoption agency's blog represented adopted persons, adoptive families, birth families, and adoption agencies. Among the seventy-nine international adoption posts examined, bloggers most frequently presented adoptive families and the adoption agency as the social actors engaged in high transitivity verb processes. Verb transitivity conveys a social actor's ability to affect others or situations. Thematic analysis in this essay uncovers how adoptive parents are portrayed as powerful and loving, the adoption agency as a benevolent advocate, and adopted persons as children "waiting" and "in need." Birth families were rarely the grammatical subject of sentences and were largely erased from bloggers' adoption narratives. This analysis uncovered how adoptive parents, not adopted persons, were the focus of these adoption narratives, highlighting the need for more nuanced and adopted-person-centered understandings of adoption in such forums.
{"title":"Waiting Children, Forever Families: A Transitivity and Thematic Analysis of Adoption Agency Blog Posts","authors":"E. Suh, Na Wu, Katelyn Hemmeke","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Historically, adoption agencies portrayed international adoption as the salvation of orphans. Our taxonomic and transitivity analysis examines how bloggers on one US-based adoption agency's blog represented adopted persons, adoptive families, birth families, and adoption agencies. Among the seventy-nine international adoption posts examined, bloggers most frequently presented adoptive families and the adoption agency as the social actors engaged in high transitivity verb processes. Verb transitivity conveys a social actor's ability to affect others or situations. Thematic analysis in this essay uncovers how adoptive parents are portrayed as powerful and loving, the adoption agency as a benevolent advocate, and adopted persons as children \"waiting\" and \"in need.\" Birth families were rarely the grammatical subject of sentences and were largely erased from bloggers' adoption narratives. This analysis uncovered how adoptive parents, not adopted persons, were the focus of these adoption narratives, highlighting the need for more nuanced and adopted-person-centered understandings of adoption in such forums.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131933847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Contemporary fictions about adoption play an important role in testing and normalizing cultural beliefs about whom adoption serves. Some examples of contemporary adoption fiction seem to offer a political critique of a failed system of international adoption where adoption is understood as a tool of imperial domination. But they may also reduce the complexities of adoption to a "good vs. evil" plotline that pits adults against each other in a struggle for the possession and ownership of another human being. This article's case study is the 2016 novel Stranger by Canadian novelist David Bergen. By granting moral and maternal power to the birth mother, and bringing the stolen adoptee "home," Stranger foregrounds birth mother agency against a backdrop of asymmetrical relations between Guatemala and the US. In this sense, Stranger is a welcome addition to contemporary adoption novels, which often occlude the first parents. Yet Bergen also harnesses the idea of the child as property of the patriarchal family, framing his adoption plot in the stark moral logic of Dickensian fiction, orphan fairytales, and biblical narratives of good and evil. While Stranger offers an anti-imperialist fantasy of the adoptee's return, and a feminist-leaning celebration of the birth mother, it does so on a bedrock of stories in which women compete for male attention, maternal status, and ownership of children.
{"title":"The Stolen Child: Maternal Claim and National Belonging in David Bergen's Stranger","authors":"Janice Schroeder","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Contemporary fictions about adoption play an important role in testing and normalizing cultural beliefs about whom adoption serves. Some examples of contemporary adoption fiction seem to offer a political critique of a failed system of international adoption where adoption is understood as a tool of imperial domination. But they may also reduce the complexities of adoption to a \"good vs. evil\" plotline that pits adults against each other in a struggle for the possession and ownership of another human being. This article's case study is the 2016 novel Stranger by Canadian novelist David Bergen. By granting moral and maternal power to the birth mother, and bringing the stolen adoptee \"home,\" Stranger foregrounds birth mother agency against a backdrop of asymmetrical relations between Guatemala and the US. In this sense, Stranger is a welcome addition to contemporary adoption novels, which often occlude the first parents. Yet Bergen also harnesses the idea of the child as property of the patriarchal family, framing his adoption plot in the stark moral logic of Dickensian fiction, orphan fairytales, and biblical narratives of good and evil. While Stranger offers an anti-imperialist fantasy of the adoptee's return, and a feminist-leaning celebration of the birth mother, it does so on a bedrock of stories in which women compete for male attention, maternal status, and ownership of children.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"62 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114231678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:In this essay, I perform comparisons and meditate on comparison itself. Referring to kinship that is nontraditional—created by means other than intercourse—the essay compares adoption with the construction of bodies, and Adoption Studies with Constructed Body Studies. Comparison to vaguely imagined "nature" often plays a key role in notions of adoption and constructed bodies: often an adoptive family is imagined to be like a "natural" one, and a constructed body is imagined to be like a "natural" one. Irony, itself built on comparison, is the dominant trope in narratives of the constructed body, and I suggest it may well flourish in adoption narratives as well. After tracing the power of the ironic "uncanny valley" in both types of narrative, the essay turns to "Like Daughter," Tananarive Due's poignant story of cloning and informal adoption, as a concrete example in which to trace similarity and difference. On a more abstract level, I examine how adoption and the construction of bodies can both be interpreted as metaphor and translation, themselves based on comparison. Using comparison as a lens for reading adoption, Adoption Studies, the construction of bodies, and Constructed Body Studies, I aim to generate ideas about how they can nurture each other.
{"title":"\"A Meditation on Adoption, Constructed Bodies, and Comparison\": A Written Interview for Adoption & Culture","authors":"Ellen Peel","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this essay, I perform comparisons and meditate on comparison itself. Referring to kinship that is nontraditional—created by means other than intercourse—the essay compares adoption with the construction of bodies, and Adoption Studies with Constructed Body Studies. Comparison to vaguely imagined \"nature\" often plays a key role in notions of adoption and constructed bodies: often an adoptive family is imagined to be like a \"natural\" one, and a constructed body is imagined to be like a \"natural\" one. Irony, itself built on comparison, is the dominant trope in narratives of the constructed body, and I suggest it may well flourish in adoption narratives as well. After tracing the power of the ironic \"uncanny valley\" in both types of narrative, the essay turns to \"Like Daughter,\" Tananarive Due's poignant story of cloning and informal adoption, as a concrete example in which to trace similarity and difference. On a more abstract level, I examine how adoption and the construction of bodies can both be interpreted as metaphor and translation, themselves based on comparison. Using comparison as a lens for reading adoption, Adoption Studies, the construction of bodies, and Constructed Body Studies, I aim to generate ideas about how they can nurture each other.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125289592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The End of International Adoption? An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies by Estye Fenton (review)","authors":"Tobias Hübinette","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123560375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Famous for adopting twelve children, most of them children of color, Helen Doss used her transracially adoptive family to model white racial liberal values. The Family Nobody Wanted argues for white social responsibility for addressing racial discrimination, framed by sentimental anecdotes about her harmonious multiracial home. Focusing on the national and racial ideology of the 1940s, when most of the adoptions were completed, this essay calls attention to the domestic conditions that led to Doss's public prominence and the interconnections between white racial liberalism's emphasis on civic duty and the rise of adoptive parents as important civic actors. These developments, traced through Doss's autobiography, demonstrate the mechanisms by which white civic responsibility became attached to the act of transracial adoption, with implications for how white adopters are perceived today—often as experts in transracial adoption experiences whose views are privileged above other participants in the adoption system.
{"title":"Nice White Lady: Whiteness and Domestic Transracial Adoption in Helen Doss's The Family Nobody Wanted","authors":"Cynthia A. Callahan","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Famous for adopting twelve children, most of them children of color, Helen Doss used her transracially adoptive family to model white racial liberal values. The Family Nobody Wanted argues for white social responsibility for addressing racial discrimination, framed by sentimental anecdotes about her harmonious multiracial home. Focusing on the national and racial ideology of the 1940s, when most of the adoptions were completed, this essay calls attention to the domestic conditions that led to Doss's public prominence and the interconnections between white racial liberalism's emphasis on civic duty and the rise of adoptive parents as important civic actors. These developments, traced through Doss's autobiography, demonstrate the mechanisms by which white civic responsibility became attached to the act of transracial adoption, with implications for how white adopters are perceived today—often as experts in transracial adoption experiences whose views are privileged above other participants in the adoption system.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114187311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This essay considers the history of Critical Adoption Studies, the field's formative scholarship on kinship development and family formation, and then critically interrogates the US foster care system. In this examination, the legal entanglements between juvenile justice and foster care are highlighted with a focus on the systems of Washington state and their disproportionate impact on youth of color, especially Black and Indigenous youth. The essay also explores the history of child removal from Indigenous families in US and Canadian history, highlighting the importance of that history when thinking about the use of the foster care system for Indigenous children today. Finally, I turn to foster care abolitionist movements headed by former fosterees to highlight an important direction that Critical Adoption Studies can pivot toward in order to center those most affected by foster care.
{"title":"A Critical Lens on US \"State Care\": Foster Care, Racism, and Colonization","authors":"Krista L. Benson","doi":"10.1353/ado.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay considers the history of Critical Adoption Studies, the field's formative scholarship on kinship development and family formation, and then critically interrogates the US foster care system. In this examination, the legal entanglements between juvenile justice and foster care are highlighted with a focus on the systems of Washington state and their disproportionate impact on youth of color, especially Black and Indigenous youth. The essay also explores the history of child removal from Indigenous families in US and Canadian history, highlighting the importance of that history when thinking about the use of the foster care system for Indigenous children today. Finally, I turn to foster care abolitionist movements headed by former fosterees to highlight an important direction that Critical Adoption Studies can pivot toward in order to center those most affected by foster care.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Since its inception over fifteen years ago, the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) has been bringing together humanities and social science scholars to create the interdisciplinary field of Critical Adoption Studies. Although she missed the inaugural conference in Tampa in 2005, Elizabeth Raleigh was first introduced to this organization at the Pittsburgh conference in 2007. Since then, she has been a steadfast attendee and participant. In many ways, her own scholarly trajectory grew in tandem with ASAC's. In this conversational interview, she reflects on the evolution of critical adoption studies and how it shaped her as an academic. Tackling questions such as the most productive lines of inquiry in adoption studies; the disciplinary and topical edges of the field; and the areas that are ripe for future research, in this short piece, Raleigh probes the paradoxes of adoptive kinship and biogenetic connection.
{"title":"Reflections of an Adoptee Researcher: Elizabeth Raleigh's Musings on Critical Adoption Studies","authors":"E. Raleigh","doi":"10.1353/ado.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Since its inception over fifteen years ago, the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) has been bringing together humanities and social science scholars to create the interdisciplinary field of Critical Adoption Studies. Although she missed the inaugural conference in Tampa in 2005, Elizabeth Raleigh was first introduced to this organization at the Pittsburgh conference in 2007. Since then, she has been a steadfast attendee and participant. In many ways, her own scholarly trajectory grew in tandem with ASAC's. In this conversational interview, she reflects on the evolution of critical adoption studies and how it shaped her as an academic. Tackling questions such as the most productive lines of inquiry in adoption studies; the disciplinary and topical edges of the field; and the areas that are ripe for future research, in this short piece, Raleigh probes the paradoxes of adoptive kinship and biogenetic connection.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115869207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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