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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... one's own story, to the less immediate response of the reader who was able to identify with a character or narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested ...
... one's own story, to the less immediate response of the reader who was able to identify with a character or narrator and thus was drawn into the text, but as if playing a role, sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an interested ...
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... one's definition of “success” says everything about one's value system, and then showed the high price that was paid for their definitions by a David Levinsky and a Willy Loman.10 It seemed as if not only Xu Xin but also. 10. Xiao-huang ...
... one's definition of “success” says everything about one's value system, and then showed the high price that was paid for their definitions by a David Levinsky and a Willy Loman.10 It seemed as if not only Xu Xin but also. 10. Xiao-huang ...
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... one's life into text, integrating, if not the lived life, at least the text of a life. It is these issues around which this study is organized: each will be the focus of a chapter designed to expand upon it, bringing to bear theory ...
... one's life into text, integrating, if not the lived life, at least the text of a life. It is these issues around which this study is organized: each will be the focus of a chapter designed to expand upon it, bringing to bear theory ...
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... that in studying other cultures, and seeing them as an outside observer, one achieves a clearer view from that perspective of oneself and one's own culture. 1. Elaine Kim, Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Introduction 9.
... that in studying other cultures, and seeing them as an outside observer, one achieves a clearer view from that perspective of oneself and one's own culture. 1. Elaine Kim, Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Introduction 9.
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... one's own roots” (Chinese American Literature, 193). Philip Roth's Coleman Silk, in The Human Stain, seems to have drawn a similar conclusion. Andrew Furman reminds us that Mona's sister Callie is studying Chinese in college, which is ...
... one's own roots” (Chinese American Literature, 193). Philip Roth's Coleman Silk, in The Human Stain, seems to have drawn a similar conclusion. Andrew Furman reminds us that Mona's sister Callie is studying Chinese in college, which is ...
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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