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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... parents who grew up in the same coun- try, speaking the same language (the differences in “culture” and assump- tions from one generation to the next notwithstanding). Who one is cannot easily be separated from where one is, where one ...
... parents who grew up in the same coun- try, speaking the same language (the differences in “culture” and assump- tions from one generation to the next notwithstanding). Who one is cannot easily be separated from where one is, where one ...
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... parents did not work so hard. . . . When Hoffman talks about their small apartment that never felt small, I remember ... parents may speak a different language or have expectations and experiences very different from those of the ...
... parents did not work so hard. . . . When Hoffman talks about their small apartment that never felt small, I remember ... parents may speak a different language or have expectations and experiences very different from those of the ...
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... parents in The Woman Warrior “ could have been her parents , ” said : I get lots of letters from women and from people of different ethnici- ties . They come from all over — Finland , and a lot of Jewish people — so I know that I am ...
... parents in The Woman Warrior “ could have been her parents , ” said : I get lots of letters from women and from people of different ethnici- ties . They come from all over — Finland , and a lot of Jewish people — so I know that I am ...
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... parents want their children to learn . . . As a result , teachers and scholars are highly respected . Both cultures survived in spite of severe setbacks and evolved and flourished while other civilizations rose , fell , or even ...
... parents want their children to learn . . . As a result , teachers and scholars are highly respected . Both cultures survived in spite of severe setbacks and evolved and flourished while other civilizations rose , fell , or even ...
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... parents who wanted their children to remain loyal to their traditions and children who wanted to be “American,” difficulties in school and on the street. But perhaps most important of all, and until then unarticulated, was the great ...
... parents who wanted their children to remain loyal to their traditions and children who wanted to be “American,” difficulties in school and on the street. But perhaps most important of all, and until then unarticulated, was the great ...
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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