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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... friend, colleague, and cheering section—for your care- ful reading, your comments, your encouragement, and your friendship. Thanks as well to Joseph Skerrett Jr. for important feedback and encour- agement. I also want to express my ...
... friend, colleague, and cheering section—for your care- ful reading, your comments, your encouragement, and your friendship. Thanks as well to Joseph Skerrett Jr. for important feedback and encour- agement. I also want to express my ...
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... me much “ naches . ” What's more , they always willingly shared me with my work , none more than my husband , Joe — life partner , best friend . Crossing Cultures Introduction This book began as so many begin, Acknowledgments xi.
... me much “ naches . ” What's more , they always willingly shared me with my work , none more than my husband , Joe — life partner , best friend . Crossing Cultures Introduction This book began as so many begin, Acknowledgments xi.
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... Friends of the Uni- versity weekends. The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a feature in which two of my stu- dents were interviewed. The course was highlighted in the university's annual report, and six years later was reported on in the ...
... Friends of the Uni- versity weekends. The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a feature in which two of my stu- dents were interviewed. The course was highlighted in the university's annual report, and six years later was reported on in the ...
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... friends and the fact that my parents did not work so hard. . . . When Hoffman talks about their small apartment that never felt small, I remember my grandfather's 50th birthday party when over 60 people were eating dinner in our liv ...
... friends and the fact that my parents did not work so hard. . . . When Hoffman talks about their small apartment that never felt small, I remember my grandfather's 50th birthday party when over 60 people were eating dinner in our liv ...
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... friends , boys as well as girls , that I certainly wasn't threatened by their rhyming games . I was too naive to recognize the only real anti - Semitic comment I heard in elementary school : I was in first grade , and my best friend ...
... friends , boys as well as girls , that I certainly wasn't threatened by their rhyming games . I was too naive to recognize the only real anti - Semitic comment I heard in elementary school : I was in first grade , and my best friend ...
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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