Maryna Zühlke 
Reading Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers (1990-1991) [EPUB ebook] 

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies — Literature, grade: 1, 3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: HS Gender and 20th-century Autobiography, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper deals with: ‘BODY: Reading Jackie Kay’s The Adoption Papers (1990-1991)’
INTRODUCTION
1 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
2 PODOROGA’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF BODY
3 DAUGHTER’S BODY
3.1 BODY-OBJECT
3.1.1 Wounded body
3.1.2 Dead body
3.1.3 Being touched
3.1.4 Being commanded
3.1.5 Examined body
3.2 BODY-“MY-BODY”
3.3. BODY-AFFECT
CONCLUSION