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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... seen parallel to another “ other ” — can serve as a link to those whose experiences have the least in common with the people they are reading about . By both identifying directly with the narrative and entering into the process of ...
... seen parallel to another “ other ” — can serve as a link to those whose experiences have the least in common with the people they are reading about . By both identifying directly with the narrative and entering into the process of ...
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... seen in a bad light, of hanging out dirty laundry for “the goyim” to see, of giving them ammunition for their already dangerous anti-otherism.2 After class my angry Chinese student came to my office. 2. The question of how “responsible ...
... seen in a bad light, of hanging out dirty laundry for “the goyim” to see, of giving them ammunition for their already dangerous anti-otherism.2 After class my angry Chinese student came to my office. 2. The question of how “responsible ...
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... seen , what perhaps is being sought , is also connection . Sander L. Gilman and others speak of the covert side of anti - Semitism , anti - blackness ( Gilman relates the association , in some cultures , at some times , of Jews with ...
... seen , what perhaps is being sought , is also connection . Sander L. Gilman and others speak of the covert side of anti - Semitism , anti - blackness ( Gilman relates the association , in some cultures , at some times , of Jews with ...
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... seen wearing a hat that would make Mona's dad look like a boob . So flinty a type is Mr. Ingle , however , what with his thin straight mouth and thin straight 14. Xiao - huang Yin seems to corroborate Mona's greater comfort with Jews ...
... seen wearing a hat that would make Mona's dad look like a boob . So flinty a type is Mr. Ingle , however , what with his thin straight mouth and thin straight 14. Xiao - huang Yin seems to corroborate Mona's greater comfort with Jews ...
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... seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, but to the execution.” Aristotle points to three sorts of “pleasure in things imitated”: learning (“to learn gives the liveliest pleasure”), recogni- tion (“Ah ...
... seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, but to the execution.” Aristotle points to three sorts of “pleasure in things imitated”: learning (“to learn gives the liveliest pleasure”), recogni- tion (“Ah ...
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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