Crossing cultures : creating identity in Chinese and Jewish American literature

Crossing cultures : creating identity in Chinese and Jewish American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oster, Judith
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]
Subjects:
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
Judaism and literature > United States.
Chinese Americans > Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Culture in literature.
Jews in literature.
American literature > Chinese American authors.
American literature.
American literature > Jewish authors.
Jews > Intellectual life.
Jews.
Judaism and literature.
Chinese Americans.
Intellectual life.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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