Adoption Papers Jackie Kay. In Says work identity is never a given. Available as a Kindle eBook.
The comparison is significant because several of Kays pieces spring from her biography and they are all concerned with the intricate nature of identity. Adoption opens up the idea that identity is uncertain and in flux but also something that does not have to remain the way it may naturally seem. Each voice grapples with social alienation and misrecognitions which undermine their place within conventional kinship positions.
The Adoption Papers is a poetic sequence telling the story of a black girls adoption by a white Scottish couple.
Jackie Kay is a black Scottish poet who was adopted by a white couple and The Adoption Papers includes poems told from the perspectives of both her mothers as well as from her own perspective as a child and young woman. World Literature and Its Times. The mother the birth mother and the daughter. Adoption opens up the idea that identity is uncertain and in flux but also something that does not have to remain the way it may naturally seem.
