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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... thing, they all seem to have—or at least to joke about—very similar stereotypical mothers.7 But the similar- ities don't stop there, and it is the affinities between these cultures that I hope will become apparent in this study. When I ...
... thing, they all seem to have—or at least to joke about—very similar stereotypical mothers.7 But the similar- ities don't stop there, and it is the affinities between these cultures that I hope will become apparent in this study. When I ...
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... things didn't happen . It hadn't hurt me where I lived . I was different , though , from the others , including the other Jews , be- cause my family was observant — orthodox . That meant that after school every day I went to Hebrew ...
... things didn't happen . It hadn't hurt me where I lived . I was different , though , from the others , including the other Jews , be- cause my family was observant — orthodox . That meant that after school every day I went to Hebrew ...
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... things, entrusting to me feelings, conflicts, bit- terness that he had been so careful to keep inside at home. “There is something about you, something—” I laughed and said that English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of ...
... things, entrusting to me feelings, conflicts, bit- terness that he had been so careful to keep inside at home. “There is something about you, something—” I laughed and said that English pro- fessors have to have read a great deal of ...
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... thing as my Sabbath candles. And yet, as if in a distorted mirror, I recognize something of myself, even as the difference, the novelty of what I see, fascinates me, draws me to look, makes me look again—more closely—to discern what I ...
... thing as my Sabbath candles. And yet, as if in a distorted mirror, I recognize something of myself, even as the difference, the novelty of what I see, fascinates me, draws me to look, makes me look again—more closely—to discern what I ...
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... things from getting too rough and competitive , to keep those “ others ” from taking over . Yellow peril , Jewish takeover — it's all the same . I can't help but imagine members of “ model minority ” Asian groups scanning the list of ...
... things from getting too rough and competitive , to keep those “ others ” from taking over . Yellow peril , Jewish takeover — it's all the same . I can't help but imagine members of “ model minority ” Asian groups scanning the list of ...
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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