Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-577
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350030350
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book establishes a substantial and unique archive of primary textual resources (thirteen in total) that have never previously been comparatively investigated. It engages with Anglophone representations of transcultural adoption in film, literary fiction, and memoir, drawn chiefly from minoritised writers based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States. Its given theme, the representation of adoption, is explored across a wide-angled range of transcultural, postcolonial, and racial contexts: Caribbean and black British; migrant Irish; African American, Korean American, Native American. Its complex mode of investigation combines a freshly composed interdisciplinary critical methodology with creative moments of autobiographical self-reflection.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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