Exploring transculturalism a biographical approach
Transnational mobility is a widespread phenomenon. It has a big impact on the lives of the individuals who travel or migrate. In order to survive and achieve their goals, they have to go through a process of learning with regard to the cultural texts and practices they now confront. They have to cop...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | VS research.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456390106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Editors’ Introduction: Exploring Transculturalism
- “It's my own stuff”: The Negotiations and Multiplicity of Ethnic Identities among Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden
- Eamonn Wall: Transculturalism, Hybridity and the New Irish in America
- Petru Popescu and the Experience of Fragmentation
- Natsume Soseki: Culture Shock and the Birth of the Modern Japanese Novel
- Becoming “Un-Dominican-York”: Julia Alvarez, Transculturalism and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- How Not to Make a Mexican Musical: Luis Buñuel and the Perils of Mexicanidad
- Homesick while at Home: Hugo Hamilton and The Speckled People
- Confronting the “Foreigner from Within”: (Sexual) Exile and “Indomitable Force” in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Colm Tóibín
- Transcultural Biographies: A Cultural Perspective.
