Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American LiteratureUniversity of Missouri Press, 2003 - 283 páginas "In this important new study, Judith Oster looks at the literature of Chinese Americans and Jewish Americans in relation to each other. Examining what is most at issue for both groups as they live between two cultures, languages, and environments, Oster focuses on the struggles of protagonists to form identities that are necessarily bicultural and always in process. Recognizing what poststructuralism has demonstrated regarding the instability of the subject and the impossibility of a unitary identity, Oster contends that the writers of these works are attempting to shore up the fragments, to construct, through their texts, some sort of wholeness and to answer at least partially the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong?" --Book Jacket. |
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... David Lloyd write: “Cultures designated as minorities have certain shared experiences by virtue of their similar antagonistic relationship to the dominant culture which seeks to marginalize them all” (The Nature and Context of Minority ...
... David Lloyd write: “Cultures designated as minorities have certain shared experiences by virtue of their similar antagonistic relationship to the dominant culture which seeks to marginalize them all” (The Nature and Context of Minority ...
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... David Levinsky and a Willy Loman.10 It seemed as if not only Xu Xin but also. 10. Xiao-huang Yin, Chinese American Literature since the 1850s, 193. In preparing my paper, I read Arthur Miller's book Salesman in Beijing, which, among ...
... David Levinsky and a Willy Loman.10 It seemed as if not only Xu Xin but also. 10. Xiao-huang Yin, Chinese American Literature since the 1850s, 193. In preparing my paper, I read Arthur Miller's book Salesman in Beijing, which, among ...
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... David Levinsky? Or “Eli the Fanatic,” or Call It Sleep? What draws me to Amy Tan? Who Is It I Am Seeing in the Mirror? I look into a mirror and I don't see Chinese features. My mother's table is not the image I see when I look at a ...
... David Levinsky? Or “Eli the Fanatic,” or Call It Sleep? What draws me to Amy Tan? Who Is It I Am Seeing in the Mirror? I look into a mirror and I don't see Chinese features. My mother's table is not the image I see when I look at a ...
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... David Levinsky cuts off his sidelocks? Perhaps we both recognize mothers of our own, recognize too that in shedding old appearances we might also be cutting ourselves off from our past and our traditions. It is when we see ourselves ...
... David Levinsky cuts off his sidelocks? Perhaps we both recognize mothers of our own, recognize too that in shedding old appearances we might also be cutting ourselves off from our past and our traditions. It is when we see ourselves ...
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... David Levinsky were both models of rags to riches, even if materialism won out over ideals; for every decision has its price, every dream its potential for nightmare. To value success, whether material, intellectual, or artistic, to see ...
... David Levinsky were both models of rags to riches, even if materialism won out over ideals; for every decision has its price, every dream its potential for nightmare. To value success, whether material, intellectual, or artistic, to see ...
Contenido
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34 | |
Language and the Self | 58 |
The Bilingual Text | 84 |
Heaping Bowls and Narrative Hungers | 122 |
My Pearly Doesnt Get Cs | 169 |
Writing the Way Home | 206 |
The Reader in the Mirror | 255 |
Index | 277 |
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Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature Judith Oster Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature Judith Oster Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
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