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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... terms participant and spectator as they are used by D. W. Harding in “Psychological Processes in the Reading of Fiction” and by Geoffrey Summerfield and Judith Summerfield in Texts and Contexts: A Contribution to the Theory and Practice ...
... terms participant and spectator as they are used by D. W. Harding in “Psychological Processes in the Reading of Fiction” and by Geoffrey Summerfield and Judith Summerfield in Texts and Contexts: A Contribution to the Theory and Practice ...
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... terms of basic values and world outlooks : Both are based on traditions of wisdom , learning . . . Both share strong fam- ily traditions with respect for elders . . . . Both value education . No mat- ter how poor and how difficult the ...
... terms of basic values and world outlooks : Both are based on traditions of wisdom , learning . . . Both share strong fam- ily traditions with respect for elders . . . . Both value education . No mat- ter how poor and how difficult the ...
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... term in Chinese)—how had they become so successful, and how, over so many centuries and such wide geograph- ical dispersion, were they able to maintain community? Similarly, Xiao-huang Yin writes that “Jewish Americans are important to ...
... term in Chinese)—how had they become so successful, and how, over so many centuries and such wide geograph- ical dispersion, were they able to maintain community? Similarly, Xiao-huang Yin writes that “Jewish Americans are important to ...
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... term I borrow from Wolfgang Iser, whose reader- response theories, along with others', are important to what follows and will be further discussed in subsequent chapters ) . My. 12. Michael Fischer, “Ethnicity and the Post-modern Arts of ...
... term I borrow from Wolfgang Iser, whose reader- response theories, along with others', are important to what follows and will be further discussed in subsequent chapters ) . My. 12. Michael Fischer, “Ethnicity and the Post-modern Arts of ...
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... term goes on . Those progressive “ removes ” from the text can just as well be facing inward , drawing readers closer in . When the focus is on only one culture , a reader who is not a “ member ” might well feel excluded , or at best an ...
... term goes on . Those progressive “ removes ” from the text can just as well be facing inward , drawing readers closer in . When the focus is on only one culture , a reader who is not a “ member ” might well feel excluded , or at best an ...
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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