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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... narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested spectator.3 In the first category were those who saw themselves almost directly in the mirror of another's story ...
... narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested spectator.3 In the first category were those who saw themselves almost directly in the mirror of another's story ...
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... 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 boy like Huck Finn, that ...
... 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 boy like Huck Finn, that ...
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... narration for our own benefit . Linde's insights connect to the cross - cultural mirroring and “ reading ” under ... narrator ( to use Linde's wonderful metaphor ) unarmed . What we , as readers , are privileged to share is text whose ...
... narration for our own benefit . Linde's insights connect to the cross - cultural mirroring and “ reading ” under ... narrator ( to use Linde's wonderful metaphor ) unarmed . What we , as readers , are privileged to share is text whose ...
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... narrator stands apart from the protagonist of autobiographical narrative ( Life Stories , 123 ) . Agnes Heller writes that modern autobiography has a dual author : the au- thor of the text is at the same time the author of his or her ...
... narrator stands apart from the protagonist of autobiographical narrative ( Life Stories , 123 ) . Agnes Heller writes that modern autobiography has a dual author : the au- thor of the text is at the same time the author of his or her ...
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... narrator's past . The key to such fusion is the narrative act , with the imagination not only filling in gaps in knowledge and experience , but also collapsing the distinctions between space and time in order to “ create ” contrasting ...
... narrator's past . The key to such fusion is the narrative act , with the imagination not only filling in gaps in knowledge and experience , but also collapsing the distinctions between space and time in order to “ create ” contrasting ...
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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