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PAPER PAVILION
AND
ROUTES THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION
by
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Object Description
| Title | Paper pavilion and routes through transnational adoption |
| Author | Dobbs, Jennifer Kwon |
| Author email | jdobbs@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Literature & Creative Writing |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-03-24 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-04-22 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | St. John, David |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh Diaz, Roberto Ignacio Ticheli, Frank |
| Abstract | This dissertation consists of two parts: a book of poetry, Paper Pavilion, and a collection of researched essays titled Routes through Transnational Adoption. Paper Pavilion fuses together fairy tales, opera, and traditional Korean and English forms to follow an epic impulse -- beginning and ending as a quest across cultural and geographic distances -- in order to create alternative histories from paradoxes, absences, and speculations arising from a post-Korean War Diaspora of which transnational adoptees are a part. The critical part, Routes through Transnational Adoption, seeks to build embodied and communal routes, rather than retrieve cultural roots, through transnational adoption by interweaving memoir and literary research. Based on the trajectory of search, specifically one that fails to uncover personal facts, this collection of essays considers the military 's role in originating and perpetuating transnational adoption in order to write through it. Oftentimes imagined as a child refugee who benefits from U.S. humanitarianism and economic opportunity, the transnational adoptee lacks agency because others must speak for her/him. Moreover, her/his cultural authenticity is questioned due to lacking memory. Seeking to give voice to failure in all its forms that are part of building routes, the critical part of my dissertation resists this grateful child narrative to discuss adult adoptee-authored transnational spaces that are currently being developed and that advocate on behalf of shared adoptee and birth mother interests, which recognize the economic, gendered, political, and social inequalities that give rise to transnational adoption. |
| Keyword | poetry; Asian American studies; Korean American; transnational; contemporary poetry; memoir; adoptee; adoption studies |
| Geographic subject (country) | Korea; USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1166 |
| Rights | Dobbs, Jennifer Kwon |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Dobbs-20080422 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Dobbs-20080422.pdf |
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| Full text | PAPER PAVILION AND ROUTES THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING) May 2008 Copyright 2008 Jennifer Kwon Dobbs |
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