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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... issues firsthand.5 And then there are those who are not of a minority : the “ majority , ” the “ mainstream . ” I have found that there is something in all these books— perhaps only one issue — that anyone could identify with , be it ...
... issues firsthand.5 And then there are those who are not of a minority : the “ majority , ” the “ mainstream . ” I have found that there is something in all these books— perhaps only one issue — that anyone could identify with , be it ...
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... issues as language, tradition, family, and education in both bodies of literature. Both groups position their characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement ...
... issues as language, tradition, family, and education in both bodies of literature. Both groups position their characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement ...
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... issue of assumed voices in narration, reminding the objectors that James's book was a novel and not an autobiography, even though it was written to seem like one. They added that Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain was not a fourteen- year-old ...
... issue of assumed voices in narration, reminding the objectors that James's book was a novel and not an autobiography, even though it was written to seem like one. They added that Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain was not a fourteen- year-old ...
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... issue in terms of a dichotomy between a socioideological approach and an aesthetic-individual approach, and notes that since the eighties the distinction has blurred, owing to the younger generation's experiencing more diversity and ...
... issue in terms of a dichotomy between a socioideological approach and an aesthetic-individual approach, and notes that since the eighties the distinction has blurred, owing to the younger generation's experiencing more diversity and ...
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... issue to be discussed more fully in Chapter 3). Out of their vari- ous identities, out of their conflicts, languages, and self-perceptions, they had to create a new hybrid one, something neither typical of where they had come from, nor ...
... issue to be discussed more fully in Chapter 3). Out of their vari- ous identities, out of their conflicts, languages, and self-perceptions, they had to create a new hybrid one, something neither typical of where they had come from, nor ...
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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