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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 46
Página 4
... conflict , and the shaping never really ends . To these issues in us all , these texts speak loudly and clearly , for in these narratives such conflicts are overt , foregrounded , more extreme and dramatic , but nevertheless not so very ...
... conflict , and the shaping never really ends . To these issues in us all , these texts speak loudly and clearly , for in these narratives such conflicts are overt , foregrounded , more extreme and dramatic , but nevertheless not so very ...
Página 8
... conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most integral to their forming identities (elu- sive and multivalent though those identities—any identities—may be): fac- ing a fragmented self, struggling ...
... conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most integral to their forming identities (elu- sive and multivalent though those identities—any identities—may be): fac- ing a fragmented self, struggling ...
Página 14
... conflicts, bit- terness that he had been so careful to keep inside at home. “There is something about you, something—” I laughed and said that English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of literature, and literature gives us ...
... conflicts, bit- terness that he had been so careful to keep inside at home. “There is something about you, something—” I laughed and said that English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of literature, and literature gives us ...
Página 15
... conflict between her English major self and her Good Chinese Daughter self. She agreed. (Was this Joe Levine and me all over again?) What was most interesting to me was the way the “Indiana white breads” reacted to the debate: What is ...
... conflict between her English major self and her Good Chinese Daughter self. She agreed. (Was this Joe Levine and me all over again?) What was most interesting to me was the way the “Indiana white breads” reacted to the debate: What is ...
Página 16
... conflicts and betrayals as well as the loyalties, the traditions and their subversions, in the Jewish literature we read. It was not surprising that some of the most sensitive reactions came from my Asian students, as well as from the ...
... conflicts and betrayals as well as the loyalties, the traditions and their subversions, in the Jewish literature we read. It was not surprising that some of the most sensitive reactions came from my Asian students, as well as from the ...
Contenido
11 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
Amy Tan Anzia Yezierska Asian American Asian American Literature autobiography become bicultural bilingual Brave Orchid Call It Sleep China Chinese American conflicts context Counterlife create culture daughter David discussion Donald dreams English ethnic Eva Hoffman example experience father feel fiction friends girl guage Hebrew hereinafter cited Hoffman hunger identity imagine immigrant interview Jade Peony Jewish American Jewish American Literature Jews Joy Luck Club Kingston Levinsky live look Lost Maxine Hong Kingston meaning memory metaphor mirror Mona mother narration narrative Nathan never novel one’s parents Philip Roth Polish protagonist question quoted reader realize Roth's Sau-ling Cynthia Wong seder seems share sounds speak story talk taonan teacher tell things tion told tradition translation understand University Press voice Woman Warrior words writing Yiddish York Zuckerman