| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) |
| Contents |
1. One other looks at another other -- 2. See(k)ing the self: mirrors and mirroring in bicultural texts -- 3. Language and the self: being bilingual -- 4. The bilingual text: how language signifies -- 5. Heaping bowls and narrative hungers: around the family table -- 6. "My pearly doesn't get C's": the centrality (and cost) of education -- 7. Writing the way home -- 8. The reader in the mirror |
| Summary |
"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?"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
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Judaism and literature -- United States
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Chinese Americans -- Intellectual life
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Culture in literature.
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Jews in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature -- Chinese American authors
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American literature -- Jewish authors
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Chinese Americans in literature
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Culture in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Jews in literature
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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Judaism and literature
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Letterkunde.
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Joodse literatuur.
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Amerikaans.
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Chinezen.
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Identiteit.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003014540 |
| ISBN |
082621486X |
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9780826214867 |
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0826264492 |
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9780826264497 |
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