JOURNAL ARTICLE

Transgressive Melancholia: Korean Orphans and Adoptees in Asian American Drama.

  • Published In: Adoption & Culture, 2024, v. 12, n. 1. P. 4 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Lee, Jieun 3 of 3

Abstract

Revisiting melancholia as a transgressive force, this essay examines varied performative iterations of melancholia through which Korean orphan and adoptee characters' loss becomes legible in three contemporary plays by US-based Asian and Asian American dramatists. The plays' experiments with melancholia not only disrupt different familial norms surrounding motherhood, teenagerhood, and adopted childhood, but also trouble US salvation and assimilation adoption fantasies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Adoption & Culture. 2024/01, Vol. 12, Issue 1, p4
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Drama and Theater Arts
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:19444990
  • DOI:10.1353/ado.00002
  • Accession Number:179016067
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