Call for papers: For a special issue on the literature of adoption,
kinship, and family. Articles are being solicited for a special issue of
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies focusing on writing about adoption, kinship,
and family. Essays may treat autobiographies, journals, letters and other
forms of autobiographical or biographical literature in any discipline
about adoption, kinship, and family, and address such questions as: How
does adoption and kinship mediate questions of identity, ethnicity and
religious affiliation? How are the politics of adoption, kinship and family
expressed in life writing? How do we address the recent surge in adoption
autobiographies? What relationship do these texts have with the adoption
rights movement, with the growing acceptance of non-traditional families,
with the development of new reproductive technologies? How might adoption
and kinship autobiography inform an understanding of gay parenting, single
parenting, an extended-family parenting? What can we learn about
globalization from personal stories of inter-cultural and inter-country
adoption? What tropes and images characterize narratives of adoption and
kinship? How can we use this writing in our classes and our lives?
Send queries and completed essays to:
Emily Hipchen and Jill R. Deans
c/o a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Department of Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
(262) 472-5037
Email: hipchene@uww.edu
Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2002.
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