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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... 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 lives , Jewish and Chinese parents want their children to ...
... 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 lives , Jewish and Chinese parents want their children to ...
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... traditions, of success (not only financial but academic)—are these not the stereotypes of “model minorities,” in part mythical, in part true? Still, they are positive models, goals as well as stereotypes, and many a Jewish or Chinese ...
... traditions, of success (not only financial but academic)—are these not the stereotypes of “model minorities,” in part mythical, in part true? Still, they are positive models, goals as well as stereotypes, and many a Jewish or Chinese ...
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... tradition, family, and education in both bodies of literature. Both groups position their characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most ...
... tradition, family, and education in both bodies of literature. Both groups position their characters and their situations along these axes of greatest conflict, but also of potentially greatest creative achievement—those issues most ...
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... traditional myths and tales are often used, altered, remade by new writers, genres, and times. I commented that in her two very different reactions—one in my office, the other in class—I sensed a conflict between her English major self ...
... traditional myths and tales are often used, altered, remade by new writers, genres, and times. I commented that in her two very different reactions—one in my office, the other in class—I sensed a conflict between her English major self ...
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... traditions and their subversions, in the Jewish literature we read. It was not surprising that some of the most sensitive reactions came from my Asian students, as well as from the other immigrants. Not that the mainstream Americans ...
... traditions and their subversions, in the Jewish literature we read. It was not surprising that some of the most sensitive reactions came from my Asian students, as well as from the other immigrants. Not that the mainstream Americans ...
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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