Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American LiteratureUniversity of Missouri Press, 2003 - 283 Seiten "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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... daughter of Irish immigrants felt that Kingston's parents in The Woman Warrior “ could have been her parents , ” said : I get lots of letters from women and from people of different ethnici- ties . They come from all over — Finland ...
... daughter of Irish immigrants felt that Kingston's parents in The Woman Warrior “ could have been her parents , ” said : I get lots of letters from women and from people of different ethnici- ties . They come from all over — Finland ...
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... daughter, had been very well educated—his spoken English was impecca- ble—and he said that what Khomeini was doing to education in his coun- try made it imperative to leave everything behind, to flee, to bring his child here to be ...
... daughter, had been very well educated—his spoken English was impecca- ble—and he said that what Khomeini was doing to education in his coun- try made it imperative to leave everything behind, to flee, to bring his child here to be ...
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... Daughter self. She agreed. (Was this Joe Levine and me all over again?) What was most interesting to me was the way the “Indiana white breads” reacted to the debate: What is the problem? You're overreacting, oversensitive. This is the ...
... Daughter self. She agreed. (Was this Joe Levine and me all over again?) What was most interesting to me was the way the “Indiana white breads” reacted to the debate: What is the problem? You're overreacting, oversensitive. This is the ...
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... daughter's chess trophies? What does Tan see when David Levinsky cuts off his sidelocks? Perhaps we both recognize mothers of our own, recognize too that in shedding old appearances we might also be cutting ourselves off from our past ...
... daughter's chess trophies? What does Tan see when David Levinsky cuts off his sidelocks? Perhaps we both recognize mothers of our own, recognize too that in shedding old appearances we might also be cutting ourselves off from our past ...
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... daughter squints into that same mirror. ... Peering back is an image only vaguely like herself. Already she sees that the magic mirror does not reflect back woman, does not reflect back Jew.” Perhaps there can be no universalist mirror ...
... daughter squints into that same mirror. ... Peering back is an image only vaguely like herself. Already she sees that the magic mirror does not reflect back woman, does not reflect back Jew.” Perhaps there can be no universalist mirror ...
Inhalt
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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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