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"I AM FIRST AN ADOPTEE”: HAPPINESS, RACIAL MELANCHOLIA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION

Sharma, Natasha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1427304102

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis considers how Asian transnational adoptees use their status as global ambassadors to disrupt systems of gender, familial, and cultural exchange between Asian nations and the United States. Though the diversity of transnational adoptees cannot be contained as one community, many writers suggest that the bond present between adoptees facilitates a new form of kinship labor that breaks boundaries of previously imagined notions of national belonging. Shilpi Gowda’s Secret Daughter, Kathyrn Ma’s The Year She Left Us, Deann Borshay Liem’s First Person Plural, Sasha Khoka’s Calcutta Calling, Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s Somewhere Between, and Jane Jeong Trenka’s Fugitive Visions are examined in the respective chapters. Though these works are vastly different, each offers a critique of lived adoptee experience through an affective conceptual framework. Together these works indicate that Asian transnational adoption is an architecture that resists the phantasmal hauntings of national origins as dictated through race and family.
Anita Mannur (Advisor)
Madelyn Detloff (Other)
Theresa Kulbaga (Other)
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  • Sharma, N. (2015). "I AM FIRST AN ADOPTEE”: HAPPINESS, RACIAL MELANCHOLIA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1427304102

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sharma, Natasha. "I AM FIRST AN ADOPTEE”: HAPPINESS, RACIAL MELANCHOLIA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1427304102.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sharma, Natasha. ""I AM FIRST AN ADOPTEE”: HAPPINESS, RACIAL MELANCHOLIA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1427304102

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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