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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... express his appreciation so graciously. I am also very grateful to the uni- versity for a sabbatical which gave me time to immerse myself in these lit- eratures and theories in preparation for undertaking a book. I appreciate as well ...
... express his appreciation so graciously. I am also very grateful to the uni- versity for a sabbatical which gave me time to immerse myself in these lit- eratures and theories in preparation for undertaking a book. I appreciate as well ...
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... express feelings of cultural dislocation, homesickness, fear, and an- xiety, to talk about difficulties in interacting with Americans. When I re- minded one Middle Eastern student that I was one of those Americans, he replied, “But you ...
... express feelings of cultural dislocation, homesickness, fear, and an- xiety, to talk about difficulties in interacting with Americans. When I re- minded one Middle Eastern student that I was one of those Americans, he replied, “But you ...
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... express what no other per- son, no previous generation, has needed to express; forging our own iden- tity out of all we have experienced and learned at home and at school—is this not what we see in cross-cultural literature, literature ...
... express what no other per- son, no previous generation, has needed to express; forging our own iden- tity out of all we have experienced and learned at home and at school—is this not what we see in cross-cultural literature, literature ...
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... express for the previously com- placent mainstream what alienation feels like. Jewish writers (some of whom were themselves already assimilated, comfortable and secure until Hitler) held up mirrors, asked the questions so many of us ...
... express for the previously com- placent mainstream what alienation feels like. Jewish writers (some of whom were themselves already assimilated, comfortable and secure until Hitler) held up mirrors, asked the questions so many of us ...
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... express the same reality or alter it ? Can faith in language ever again be what it was when it seemed so simple to find and express mean- ing in familiar words , when one could be confident of being understood ? The most accomplished ...
... express the same reality or alter it ? Can faith in language ever again be what it was when it seemed so simple to find and express mean- ing in familiar words , when one could be confident of being understood ? The most accomplished ...
Contenido
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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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