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Saturday, June 22 • 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Beyond Assimilation: Ghost Kingdoms & Korean Adoption

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In Betty Jean Lifton’s “Ghosts in the Adopted Family,” she states, “[t]he story of adoption is a ghost story”. I will consider the ghost kingdom in Jane Jeong Trenka’s The Language of Blood, and how hauntings from Korea constitute a form of resistance – against the white saviorist narrative of adoption. My reading will recognize the ghost kingdom as a (non)memory that counters the cultural, biological, and identity erasure in transnational/-racial adoption. In honoring the tradition of hauntology, queer of color critique, and Eng & Han's racial melancholia, I argue the ghost kingdom is a radical (re)connection and remembrance.
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Eryn Mei Fēng

Eryn Mei Fēng (they/them) is a Mellon Mays Research Fellow at Bryn Mawr College and a Chinese adoptee born in Fengcheng, Jiangxi. They are invested in exploring the innate interconnectedness between transness, queerness, race, gender, and citizenship - all concepts that the study... Read More →

Saturday June 22, 2024 2:00pm - 3:15pm CDT
Lakeshore A: Lobby Level
  General Session (Open To All Attendees)

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