In her autobiographical novel The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston presents her search for identity She is an American born Chinese woman who struggles with the contradictions that arise from two distinct cultures Kingston contextualizes her quest for identity through the mother-daughter relationship She defines herself by and against her mother who is the signifier..
Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee`s first but superbly-written novel, presents a Korean-American who is caught in a cultural dilemma Lee highlights the novel by making his character Park a good spook, which seems to make it a spy novel The novel, however, goes beyond a spy novel as Verlyn Klinkenborg suggests in The New Yorker in Henry Park the spy`s sense of doubleness is do..
The narrative methods of The Waves and Beween the Acts tell us that Virginia Woolf reaches for a condition of poetry and her texts are literary equivalent of Kristeva`s poetic revolution in language Pointing out the danger of being `this or that` in both life and narrative, she praises the concept of `difference` and embraces everything in life-men and women, presence and ..
It should not be surprising that the Jewish dimensions of Malamud`s fiction have stimulated the greatest body of discussion thus far Discussion falls into four broad and often overlapping categories cultural, religious, literary, and linguistic This paper contends that Bernard Malamud`s religious symbolism is based on Judaism, Christianity, and Humanism Although criti..
This novel is about the fate of human beings told from a million years in the future It is a sad and comic parody about the human condition in the current world Scientific observations taken from Charles Darwin`s books and evolutionary theory make the novel plausible The headless ghost narrator Leon Trout is the son of Kilgore Trout, a familiar alter-ego and science fiction..