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Author Medina-Rivera, Antonio

Title Constructing Identities : the Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Contents Part I Gender Representation and Identity -- Chapter 1 Feminism, Modernity, and Premodernity in Japan and the West: Fumiko Enchi's The Waiting Years and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House / Takao Hagiwara Hagiwara, Takao 2 -- Chapter 2 I Am My Mother: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Identity Formation in the Anglophone Caribbean / Jaclyn Salkauski Salkauski, Jaclyn 18 -- Chapter 3 Gender-crossing as Cultural and Identity Construct In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and China Men / Sorina Ailiesei Ailiesei, Sorina 33 -- Part II Race, Stereotypes and Identity -- Chapter 4 Intention versus Reception: The Representation of the Chinese in Ah Sin / Yusha Pan Pan, Yusha 48 -- Chapter 5 The Metaphorical Consumption of the Racial Other in Spanish Advertising / Diana Palardy Palardy, Diana 61 -- Chapter 6 Mestizaje Revisited: Cherrie Moraga, Mixture and Postpositivist Realists / Victoria Bolf Bolf, Victoria 74 -- Chapter 7 A Multi-faceted Experience of the Other in Michel Ocelot's Fairytale, Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest / Nina Tucci Tucci, Nina 89 -- Part III National/International Identities -- Chapter 8 Bollywood and the Diaspora: The Flip Side of Globalization and Cultural Hybridity in Kal Ho Na Ho and Salaam Namaste / Anup Kumar Kumar, Anup 116 -- Chapter 9 Re-Visioning Little Italy with Italian Eyes: The Italian Immigrant Experience in Early 20th century America as Portrayed in Melania Mazzucco's Vita / Carla A. Simonini Simonini, Carla A. 143 -- Chapter 10 Crossing Cinematographic and Geopolitical Borders: Palestinian-Chilean Filmmaker Miguel Littin / Heba El Attar Attar, Heba El 162 -- Part IV Political and Historical Borders -- Chapter 11 The Political Economy of the British Slave Trade: The Royal African Company and the Convergence and Confrontation Between Private and Public Interests / Jennifer S. Schiff Schiff, Jennifer S. 178 -- Chapter 12 Prophethood and the Making of Islamic Historical Identity Abed el-Rahman Tayyara 194 -- Chapter 13 Looking Back, Looking Forward: National Identity, Healing Historiography and Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos / Sylvia Mittler Mittler, Sylvia 217
Summary The basic concern of border studies is to examine and analyze interactions that occur when two groups come into contact with one another. Acculturation and globalization are at the heart of border studies, and cultural studies scholars try to describe the possible interactions in terms of conflicts and resolutions that become the result of those possible encounters. The present book is a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented during the IV Crossing Over Symposium at Cleveland State Unive ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Globalization -- Congresses
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Congresses
Acculturation -- Congresses
Globalization.
globalism.
Literature & literary studies.
History.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Acculturation
Globalization
Racially mixed people
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Wilberschied, Lee.
ISBN 9781443850926
1443850926
9781299765436
1299765432