Postmodernity and Cross-culturalismYoshinobu Hakutani Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 - 214 páginas This collection of eleven essays concerns postmodernity in cross-culturalism, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in East-West literary criticism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relations such as postcolonialism in Indian literature and paganism in Spanish culture. The writers and critics discussed range from Emerson, Twain, and Lacan to Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. |
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... the margins to the center , but the decentric mode of writing has also produced the effect of collapsing the traditional oppositions : ( Continued on back flap ) Postmodernity and Cross - Culturalism and Cross - Culturalism Edited.
... the margins to the center , but the decentric mode of writing has also produced the effect of collapsing the traditional oppositions : ( Continued on back flap ) Postmodernity and Cross - Culturalism and Cross - Culturalism Edited.
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... traditional Japanese culture , such as its food , its landscape , and its poetry , Murakami's works are almost completely emptied of Japanese signs . His characters eat pasta , McDonald's hamburgers , and sometimes vichyssoise ; they ...
... traditional Japanese culture , such as its food , its landscape , and its poetry , Murakami's works are almost completely emptied of Japanese signs . His characters eat pasta , McDonald's hamburgers , and sometimes vichyssoise ; they ...
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... traditional discourse of female identity : " Dictee , " Cooley observes , " deploys strategies of the avant- garde , specifically , of postmodernism , in order to challenge the limits of con- ventional narrative for a representation of ...
... traditional discourse of female identity : " Dictee , " Cooley observes , " deploys strategies of the avant- garde , specifically , of postmodernism , in order to challenge the limits of con- ventional narrative for a representation of ...
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... traditional samurai choice of committing suicide to redeem his honor . Similarly , in Junichiro Tanizaki's 1928 novel , Tade Kuu Mushi ( Some Prefer Nettles ) , there is a scene in which Kaname , the male protagonist , boards a ship on ...
... traditional samurai choice of committing suicide to redeem his honor . Similarly , in Junichiro Tanizaki's 1928 novel , Tade Kuu Mushi ( Some Prefer Nettles ) , there is a scene in which Kaname , the male protagonist , boards a ship on ...
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... his job , has strong family ties , and follows traditional courtship behavior . The narrator sneers at the conventionality and formality of the fiance , the only one who is given a name in the stories . Yet 18 CELESTE LOUGHMAN.
... his job , has strong family ties , and follows traditional courtship behavior . The narrator sneers at the conventionality and formality of the fiance , the only one who is given a name in the stories . Yet 18 CELESTE LOUGHMAN.
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Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe | 31 |
Richard Wrights Pagan Spain and CrossCultural Discourse | 43 |
Rushdies Midnights Children Meditation and the Postmodern Conception of History | 62 |
Three Meals a Day and the Fun of It Existential Hunger and the MagnificentSevenSamurai | 76 |
On Making Things Korean Western Drama and Local Tradition in Please Turn Off the Lights | 88 |
Linguistic Conservatism National Identity and the Postcolonial Indian Novel | 106 |
Japan Has Become the Sign Identity and History in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee | 117 |
Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walkers The Color Purple | 144 |
Emerson Lacan and Zen Transcendental and Postmodern Conceptions of the Eastern Subject | 157 |
North American Versions of Haibun and Postmodern American Culture | 168 |
Contributors | 201 |
Index | 205 |
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Página 154 - For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you, Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake...
Página 161 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same power that brought me there brought you.
Página 37 - I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"— and tore it up.
Página 166 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
Página 164 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Página 165 - The eye is the best of artists. By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects, of what character soever, into a well colored and shaded globe, so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose, is round and symmetrical.
Página 164 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Página 165 - Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 38 - It warn't the grounding — that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head." " Good gracious! anybody hurt?
Página 9 - The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak.