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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... feel “at home”— ideally, both in the world one seeks to inhabit and in the world one has come from. Such difficulty can also apply to subsequent generations, whose cultures and ethnic roots remain strong and influential. As we know ...
... feel “at home”— ideally, both in the world one seeks to inhabit and in the world one has come from. Such difficulty can also apply to subsequent generations, whose cultures and ethnic roots remain strong and influential. As we know ...
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... feel as though I am reading about 1. George Steiner, “Unsentimental Education,” 85. 2. The piloting of this course was funded by an Eli Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship, which made it possible to produce a small book of ...
... feel as though I am reading about 1. George Steiner, “Unsentimental Education,” 85. 2. The piloting of this course was funded by an Eli Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship, which made it possible to produce a small book of ...
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... feel excluded , or at best an interested but neutral observer . Seeing one culture's affinity to another , however ... feeling connec- tions even among differences . Ultimately , if what I learned in school — what happens in my classes ...
... feel excluded , or at best an interested but neutral observer . Seeing one culture's affinity to another , however ... feeling connec- tions even among differences . Ultimately , if what I learned in school — what happens in my classes ...
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... feel about Joe's courageous stand ? I confess it , I was embarrassed . Had I been less shy , had the teacher realized I could have sung a good solo and given me “Oh Holy Night” to sing, or “Little Star 12 Crossing Cultures.
... feel about Joe's courageous stand ? I confess it , I was embarrassed . Had I been less shy , had the teacher realized I could have sung a good solo and given me “Oh Holy Night” to sing, or “Little Star 12 Crossing Cultures.
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... feel any more different than I already did, rather than of- fend or make waves in a class where I was the Other and glad that I was accepted. Yes, I was proud to be Jewish, but uncomfortable with being dif- ferent, unwilling to call ...
... feel any more different than I already did, rather than of- fend or make waves in a class where I was the Other and glad that I was accepted. Yes, I was proud to be Jewish, but uncomfortable with being dif- ferent, unwilling to call ...
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 |
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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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