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Sweetman, Sarah L.

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Forging Family: Creating and Perpetuating Collective Memory in Families with Children Adopted from China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Forging Family: Creating and Perpetuating Collective Memory in Families with Children Adopted from China./
Author:	Sweetman, Sarah L.
Description:	243 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3589647
ISBN:	9781303286636

Forging Family: Creating and Perpetuating Collective Memory in Families with Children Adopted from China.
Sweetman, Sarah L.

Forging Family: Creating and Perpetuating Collective Memory in Families with Children Adopted from China. - 243 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Families in the United States have adopted close to half a million children, primarily girls, from China. In recent decades, many of these families used adoption websites to save and create memories for their child and new family, inform friends and family about the process, and participate in the larger community of families formed through Chinese adoption. This dissertation asks not only what memory is created in these families, but also how they develop and maintain the memory they create. Earlier explorations of transnational adoption focused on the ways in which children are "kinned" into their new families or the ways mothers practice "culture-keeping" by integrating elements of the child's birth culture into the family. These two practices seem to be in tension, as kinning seeks to eliminate difference between the child and the family and culture-keeping seeks to reinforce (and celebrate) that difference. This study of seventy-three adoption websites created between 1994 and 2009, however, concludes that there is not a clear tension between kinning and culture-keeping. Instead, these families construct memory by creating culture using stories and symbols developed and disseminated within the larger community of families who have adopted from China, shaped by their perceptions of China, in ways that fit their specific situational needs. Exploring common elements within these websites as well as key silences reveals that this culture creating does not engage with contemporary China, the Chinese-American experience, or the realities of biological parentage. Rather, it serves to mark families as members of a community and to develop collective memory in both the families and this community.

ISBN: 9781303286636Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

Forging Family: Creating and Perpetuating Collective Memory in Families with Children Adopted from China.
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