Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption

by Jieun Lee

Book Overview

Analyzing contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption, Jieun Lee's Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption challenges longstanding ideas about adoption. Lee contends that in staging adoptees' birth family searches and reunions, theater and performance artists unsettle dominant discourses that have essentialized adoptees through ethnonationalist, gendered, and postwar humanitarian narratives in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814259383
• ISBN13: 9780814259382
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages