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Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Editor; Part I Native North America; Chapter 1 From the Sixties Scoop to Baby Veronica: Transracial Adoption of Indigenous Children in the USA and Canada ; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Stimulating and Resisting Transborder Indigenous Adoptions in North America in the 1970s ; Indigenous Child Removal in North America; The Removal; The Investigation; The Adoption and the Children's Return; The Importance of Permanency; The Aftermath; Bibliography
Chapter 3 "Disastrous Adoption"? Representations of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing Native North American Transracial Adoption: The Historical Background; Michael Dorris's the Broken Cord: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the "Disastrous Adoption"; Representations of FAS and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
Forced Removal and White Captivity in Solar Storms and Indian KillerSites of Adoptive Trauma in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; New Encounters with Whites and the White Power Structure in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; Forced Removals: Individual and Historical Traumas in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Sugarcoated Prejudice: Adoption and Transethnic Adoption in Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree ; From Playing Indian to Going Native; The Making of Forrest Carter; Adoption and Transethnic Adoption as Rhetorical Strategies
Text versus Context in Assessing Moral ValuesAdoption, Transethnic Adoption, and Literary Forgery; Bibliography; Part II Asia and America; Chapter 6 Writing and Identity in Jane Jeong Trenka's Life Narratives ; Finding the 'Right Story': The Craft of Self-Representation; Body into Text; My Adopted Life was Supposed to Save Me from Being Myself; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The (T)race of Trojan Horses: Transracial Adoption and Adoptive Being in Phan's We Should Never Meet and Truong's Bitter in the Mouth ; From Being Adopted to Adoptive Being; Secrets; Histories; Traces; Bearings; Conclusions
Chapter 3 "Disastrous Adoption"? Representations of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing Native North American Transracial Adoption: The Historical Background; Michael Dorris's the Broken Cord: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the "Disastrous Adoption"; Representations of FAS and Disability in Recent Native North American Writing; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
Forced Removal and White Captivity in Solar Storms and Indian KillerSites of Adoptive Trauma in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; New Encounters with Whites and the White Power Structure in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; Forced Removals: Individual and Historical Traumas in Solar Storms and Indian Killer; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Sugarcoated Prejudice: Adoption and Transethnic Adoption in Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree ; From Playing Indian to Going Native; The Making of Forrest Carter; Adoption and Transethnic Adoption as Rhetorical Strategies
Text versus Context in Assessing Moral ValuesAdoption, Transethnic Adoption, and Literary Forgery; Bibliography; Part II Asia and America; Chapter 6 Writing and Identity in Jane Jeong Trenka's Life Narratives ; Finding the 'Right Story': The Craft of Self-Representation; Body into Text; My Adopted Life was Supposed to Save Me from Being Myself; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The (T)race of Trojan Horses: Transracial Adoption and Adoptive Being in Phan's We Should Never Meet and Truong's Bitter in the Mouth ; From Being Adopted to Adoptive Being; Secrets; Histories; Traces; Bearings; Conclusions