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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... Roth's case is not only well known, but he has incorporated it into several of his novels and discussed it in The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. (Roth originally published “Writing about Jews” in Commentary 36 [December 1963]: 446 ...
... Roth's case is not only well known, but he has incorporated it into several of his novels and discussed it in The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. (Roth originally published “Writing about Jews” in Commentary 36 [December 1963]: 446 ...
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... Roth's Call It Sleep and Kingston's Woman Warrior. But there have been Jewish writers before these culturally aware times who “made it” into university classes and fiction anthologies—Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, for ...
... Roth's Call It Sleep and Kingston's Woman Warrior. But there have been Jewish writers before these culturally aware times who “made it” into university classes and fiction anthologies—Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, for ...
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... Roth's Coleman Silk , in The Human Stain , seems to have drawn a similar conclusion . Andrew Furman reminds us that Mona's sister Callie is studying Chinese in college , which is also incomprehensible to their parents , who have worked ...
... Roth's Coleman Silk , in The Human Stain , seems to have drawn a similar conclusion . Andrew Furman reminds us that Mona's sister Callie is studying Chinese in college , which is also incomprehensible to their parents , who have worked ...
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... Roth's Call It Sleep uses “mirrors” as the vehicle for wish fulfillment, in this case the wish to not be, or at least to not be who he is. David needs to deceive himself about his present existence, and mirrors help him to do so, to ...
... Roth's Call It Sleep uses “mirrors” as the vehicle for wish fulfillment, in this case the wish to not be, or at least to not be who he is. David needs to deceive himself about his present existence, and mirrors help him to do so, to ...
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... Roth's story “ Eli , the Fanatic , ” the Hasidic “ greenie ” mirrors all that Americanized , suburban Eli Peck has so successfully been denying . Both texts are exam- ples of the “ disowning ” that Sau - ling Cynthia Wong finds central ...
... Roth's story “ Eli , the Fanatic , ” the Hasidic “ greenie ” mirrors all that Americanized , suburban Eli Peck has so successfully been denying . Both texts are exam- ples of the “ disowning ” that Sau - ling Cynthia Wong finds central ...
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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