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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... English - language intro- duction : Without either Chinese or Jewish cultures , world civilization as we know it today would be diminished . These two major existing , living societies developed into highly civilized forms in ancient ...
... English - language intro- duction : Without either Chinese or Jewish cultures , world civilization as we know it today would be diminished . These two major existing , living societies developed into highly civilized forms in ancient ...
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... English) on the Jews of Kaifeng, who made a vibrant community that existed from the days when Kaifeng was the capital of a number of dynasties until the nineteenth century— approximately eight hundred years of living in harmony and ...
... English) on the Jews of Kaifeng, who made a vibrant community that existed from the days when Kaifeng was the capital of a number of dynasties until the nineteenth century— approximately eight hundred years of living in harmony and ...
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... English writing. This was just after the revolution in Iran and the installation of Khomeini and his new policies. The student, who had come here with his wife and young daughter, had been very well educated—his spoken English was ...
... English writing. This was just after the revolution in Iran and the installation of Khomeini and his new policies. The student, who had come here with his wife and young daughter, had been very well educated—his spoken English was ...
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... English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of literature, and literature gives us many privileged views of character and situation; insight is our stock in trade. But he wasn't satisfied. “No, that can't be all, reading can't ...
... English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of literature, and literature gives us many privileged views of character and situation; insight is our stock in trade. But he wasn't satisfied. “No, that can't be all, reading can't ...
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... English major, worried in my office about Americans who might take Kingston's book as a “textbook of Chinese culture and family life,” but she stood up for Kingston in the class discussion, defending Kingston's need to write it as she ...
... English major, worried in my office about Americans who might take Kingston's book as a “textbook of Chinese culture and family life,” but she stood up for Kingston in the class discussion, defending Kingston's need to write it as she ...
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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