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Abstract: The Language of Blood reveals the transnational adoption is problematic for adoptees to build their satiactory identities and healthy psychology. The only way for adoptees to survive is to construct plural forms by merging self and other.
Key words:transnational adoption; identity
1672-1578(2013)03-0020-01
The Language of Blood is a well told story about a woman who was adopted as a young girl from Korea and raised in the United States of America. Jane Jeong Trenka and her sister Carol were adopted by Frederick and Margaret Brauer and raised in the all, homogeneous town of Harlow, Minnesota—a place “where the sky touches the earth in uninterrupted horizon…where stoici is stamped into the bones of each generation.” They were loved as American children without a past. Trenka's story is one exile, displacement and juxtaposition story of feeling both a sense of belonging and a sense of not belonging.
The transnational adoption is problematic for adoptees to build their satiactory identities and healthy psychology. Namely, they cannot readily find their sense of belongings in both outside human world and inner ego world which are interlocking set. Lack of biological and psychological kinship system causes Jane’s “four-year depression” which is termed “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” according to a “book: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman” (93). 1 Freud pictures the melancholic patient as being unable to “consciously perceive what she has lost,” or consciously knowing “whom she has lost but not what she has lost”.2 When she is young, Jane could consciously perceive she has lost her mother and homeland but couldn’t consciously know and calculate what she has lost, namely what kinship and native land mean to her. When she starts to calculate such unquantifiables as how many opportunities America offers is worth losing blood relation and homeland, Jane comes to epiphany that homeland and blood relation are good remedies to 源于:论文格式怎么写www.618jyw.com
cure her lifelong trauma.
Although her quest for her Holy Grail shuttles from South Korea to the U.S.A., from Ms. X to Ms. Y in “the Lutheran Social Service” (193), Jane’s own genome project could only be realized in her dream in which “we rise farther and farther in the sky, away from the buildings, away from the noise, away from the weight of people’s desires , their worries , their disappointments…”(251). The Language of Blood ends in such a dream instead of a kind of reality, which indicates a happy ending or a sound answer to the problem of belonging in two worlds for a transnational adoptee is only in the dream world where Umma who gives birth to Jane, Daughter who Jane gives birth to, and Jane could rid secular trauma and unite forever. Jane knows sheis fighting a losing battle, but she keeps on striving to build her identity by struggling to create a third identification based on merging bot摘自:写论文www.618jyw.com
h her American identity and Korean one. Inspired by monarch butterflies, Jane comprehends “species that emigrate only trel one way” while “species that migrate trel back and forth between two different places” and “they he two homes.”(37) Suspending between two polar worlds—western U.S.A and oriental Korea, Jane endeors to learn about differences betweens so that she could build her identity by fostering empathy which supports the Self—Other Merging, either egoi or altrui. As a result, Jane mimics monarch butterflies to construct plural forms of her identification.
Notes:
Trenka, Jane Jeong, The Language of Blood, Graywolf Press, 2005.
Sigmund Freud. Mourning and Melancholia[J]. in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol.14, ed. James Strachey(London: Hogarth Press, 1957), 24

5. Emphasis in the original.

作者简介:郭冬辉(1972-),女,汉族,吉林省吉林市人,英语语言文学硕士,齐鲁工业大学外国语学院副教授,研究方向:英美文学。
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