{"product_id":"unsettling-acts-jieun-lee-9780814215838","title":"Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnalyzing contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption, Jieun Lee's \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption\u003c\/i\u003e 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 both birth and adoptive cultures. In doing so, Lee reveals how these performances engage in acts of disavowal of and resistance to mythologies of adoption and adoptee experience. Lee examines twelve works--from South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Denmark--including plays, musicals, solo performances, community-based theater, and performance art. Through her analysis, theater and performance becomes a means for reimagining adoptees' identity, kinship, and sense of belonging. Further, these pieces encourage critical exploration of the history, politics, and social impacts of Korean transnational adoption. These works thus nurture a countermemory to engender redressive accountability and transpacific justice, pointing a way forward for remaking the transnational adoptee experience in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jieun Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814215831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jieun Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451222184191,"sku":"9780814215838","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13a509df-08c5-42b5-9835-8cdb129da893.jpg?v=1735876826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsettling-acts-jieun-lee-9780814215838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}