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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... character or narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested spectator.3 In the first category were those who saw themselves almost directly in the mirror of ...
... character or narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested spectator.3 In the first category were those who saw themselves almost directly in the mirror of ...
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... characters of these texts , and with one another , than with even. 4. Gina Kopeliovich, unpublished student paper, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1991. 6. Pete Brown, unpublished student paper, Case Western Reserve ...
... characters of these texts , and with one another , than with even. 4. Gina Kopeliovich, unpublished student paper, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1991. 6. Pete Brown, unpublished student paper, Case Western Reserve ...
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... characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most integral to their forming identities (elu- sive and multivalent though those identities—any ...
... characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most integral to their forming identities (elu- sive and multivalent though those identities—any ...
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... character and situation; insight is our stock in trade. But he wasn't satisfied. “No, that can't be all, reading can't be all. There has to be something else.” He was right. He wasn't the only international student to confide in me, to ...
... character and situation; insight is our stock in trade. But he wasn't satisfied. “No, that can't be all, reading can't be all. There has to be something else.” He was right. He wasn't the only international student to confide in me, to ...
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... character; we understand stereotyping, etc., etc. They just couldn't understand the conflict, the anger and embar- rassment of the Chinese students. But I could. I told the class about the furor Philip Roth raised in every Jewish ...
... character; we understand stereotyping, etc., etc. They just couldn't understand the conflict, the anger and embar- rassment of the Chinese students. But I could. I told the class about the furor Philip Roth raised in every Jewish ...
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 |
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