TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION IN ANNE TYLER’S DIGGING TO AMERICA
TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION IN ANNE TYLER’S DIGGING TO AMERICA

Summary/Abstract: In a present setting of understanding post-colonial US literature and culture, the present article depicts several aspects concerning the concept of ”The American Dream” and transnational adoption in one of Anne Tayler’s latest books, namely Digging to America. There is described the way in which Digging to America supports an American form of neoliberal multiculturalism, so-called colour-blind version. At the same time, we should consider whether the novel manages to overview problems such as ethnicity, cultural identity and, why not, the possibility of racial reparation. Digging to America also explores the so-called ”Transnational American Dream”, referring to the new immigrants’ aspirations to achieve success in the United States. In Digging to America, Tyler starts to focus on the simple question of how an individual moves forward, now turning her (Tyler’s) face towards the present and the future, a fact not taken into consideration in her previous novels.

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