Picture Books on Asian Transnational/-Racial Adoption

Bibliographic Data

ID8895847
AuthorsFu-jen Chen (0000-0001-8936-5062, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume43
Issue1
Pages90-124
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras.2013.005
OpenAlexW2059555816
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

After an exploration on the function of picture books on Asian transnational/-racial adoption, this essay examines selected picture books that are divided into two groups: pre- and post-legal adoption narratives. I argue that in the course of demystifying the mono-ethnic or mono-cultural norm of kinship and family, a re-mystification simultaneously occurs in the narratives of both pre- and post-legal adoption picture books. Picture books may function to cultivate a healthy degree of psychological mobility and prepare adopted children to confront and later on even to assume a lack and a split they share with the Other

Art · Ethnic group · Function (biology · Kinship · Literature · Narrative · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis

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