@article{ART002584640},
author={Park Jeongjun},
title={Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2020},
volume={13},
number={1},
pages={95-120},
doi={10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Jeongjun
TI - Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2020
VL - 13
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 95
EP - 120
SN - 2092-6081
AB - Adoptee literatures have been published since the late 1990s in Scandinavia. Adoptee memoirs are different from previous adoption discourses led mainly by adoptive parents and non-adoptee writers. A small number of adoptees put great emphasis on adoptee rights movement, critical adoption studies as well as media activities to disseminate a more balanced understanding of transnational adoption at the present.
When it comes to literature, several Nordic adoptees have been writing on their lives as non-Caucasian citizens living in Scandinavia. They try to reveal hidden aspects of life as adoptees, focusing their attention on everyday racism, and searching for identity, loss, and ambivalent feelings towards their birth parents and South Korea.
This paper centres on conception poems written by a Danish poet named Maja Lee Langvad who writes about the transnational adoption system from an angry adoptee perspective. The pain of Korean adoptees is due to three factors: everyday racism, problematic adoption policy, and the negative effects of the adoption system in Denmark. Her poems speak for a great number of adoptees. Her poems say differently about current transnational adoption, trying to change public opinion on adoption, and subsequently encouraging better adoption politics and better reproduction policy in both South Korea and Denmark.
KW - Maja Lee Langvad;transnational adoption;angry adoptees;critical adoption study;Nordic adoption literature;adoption discussion
DO - 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
ER -
Park Jeongjun. (2020). Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 13(1), 95-120.
Park Jeongjun. 2020, "Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.13, no.1 pp.95-120. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun "Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 13.1 pp.95-120 (2020) : 95.
Park Jeongjun. Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad. 2020; 13(1), 95-120. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun. "Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 13, no.1 (2020) : 95-120.doi: 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun. Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 13(1), 95-120. doi: 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun. Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2020; 13(1) 95-120. doi: 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun. Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad. 2020; 13(1), 95-120. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
Park Jeongjun. "Arguments For and Against Transnational Adoption in Nordic Adoptee Literature: Focusing on Works by Maja Lee Langvad" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 13, no.1 (2020) : 95-120.doi: 10.22901/trans.2020.13.1.95
