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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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Berg, Wolfgang (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Éigeartaigh, Aoileann Ní (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.