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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... ethnic roots remain strong and influential. As we know, facts alone never move us as much as individualized nar- ratives do. George Steiner put it so well: It is one of the responsibilities of the novel [and I would include much ...
... ethnic roots remain strong and influential. As we know, facts alone never move us as much as individualized nar- ratives do. George Steiner put it so well: It is one of the responsibilities of the novel [and I would include much ...
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... ethnicity, is the same for the reader as for the writer of the book, the connection (whether positive or negative, sympathetic or hostile) is naturally most immediate: This is my story; this is my family whether I like them or not ...
... ethnicity, is the same for the reader as for the writer of the book, the connection (whether positive or negative, sympathetic or hostile) is naturally most immediate: This is my story; this is my family whether I like them or not ...
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... ethnic “others,” and, closer yet, other Chinese Americans will more readily find themselves “in” the book. I emphasized “a lot of Jewish people” above because I have found that somewhere between the “in-group” response and that of other ...
... ethnic “others,” and, closer yet, other Chinese Americans will more readily find themselves “in” the book. I emphasized “a lot of Jewish people” above because I have found that somewhere between the “in-group” response and that of other ...
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... ethnic identity within assimilation.” Community, family, antiquity that still lives, the impor- tance of the word ... Ethnicity Introduction 7.
... ethnic identity within assimilation.” Community, family, antiquity that still lives, the impor- tance of the word ... Ethnicity Introduction 7.
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... Wong, Amy Ling, King-Kok Cheung, Bonnie TuSmith, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and of Jewish. 11. Yin, Chinese American Literature, 189–90. 12. Michael Fischer, “Ethnicity and the Post-modern Arts of Memory,” 8 Crossing Cultures.
... Wong, Amy Ling, King-Kok Cheung, Bonnie TuSmith, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and of Jewish. 11. Yin, Chinese American Literature, 189–90. 12. Michael Fischer, “Ethnicity and the Post-modern Arts of Memory,” 8 Crossing Cultures.
Contenido
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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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