Bloodlines: Adoption, Crime, and the Search for Belonging

by Jinny Huh

Book Overview

This study explores the relationship between crime fiction and adoption. A primary goal of this study is to investigate how the adoption trope reveals current cultural fears and fascination with kinship formations and essentialist notions of belonging, DNA and ancestry searches, and the controversial practice of adoption. Popular fiction, namely crime/detective fiction and the subgenre of adoption crime fiction, reflect scholarly debates within the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009360965
• ISBN13: 9781009360968
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages