Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Grantham, Mariann Leigh
URN	etd-06232010-144017
Title	Who Writes the Family History, Anyway? A Look At Adoption Within Wise Children And Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Barry Faulk Committee Chair Eric Walker Committee Member Maxine Montgomery Committee Member
Keywords	Adoption Adoption Studies Linda Hutcheon Marianne Novy Margot Gayle Backus Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Wise Children Angela Carter Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Date of Defense	2010-04-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis shows the different ways the tension between the societal ideal of the family (something that is in and of itself a construct) and the constructed family plays out in two 20th century British novels, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Wise Children. This tension is brought into focus in part by the form the novel itself takes, that of historiographic metafiction, a sort of self-aware fiction that explores historical personages or the definition of what history really is. The different ways in which the novels play with history (the documented means by which events, which have no meaning, turn into fact, which is ascribed a meaning) is explored as a way of examining adoption within these two novels.
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