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Neo-Orientalist Stereotyping in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses
Rima Bhattacharya
- Vol. 66, Iss: 1, pp 31-45
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Tan as discussed by the authors attempted to reconstitute the American experience for both the first and second generation Chinese immigrants in her fictional discourses, but the result was unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory for many Chinese immigrants.Abstract:
An American novelist of Chinese origin, Amy Tan attempts to reconstitute the American experience for both the first and second generation Chinese immigrants in her fictional discourses. Curiously, ...read more
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
Kathleen McGill,James Clifford +1 more
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Reading Amy Tan's Hologram: The Hundred Secret Senses
TL;DR: Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) as discussed by the authors explores the relationship between the real world and the world of yin through a series of echoing narratives, where two main characters "create" each other in their own narratives, interpreting each other's lives in relation to their previous existences.
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A multidimensional and digital humanistic analysis of style in Amy Tan’s novels
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the stylistic differences among Tan's six novels across Biber's textual dimensions with the aid of MAT and R. This qualitative and quantitative comparison of stylistic variations demonstrates that computer assisted methods can identify significant linguistic characteristics which literary critics might have ignored.
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Cultural identity and diaspora
TL;DR: A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging, joining the company of the other 'Third Cinemas' It is related to, but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) 'blacks' of the diasporas of the West.
“Orientalism - Western Conceptions of the Orient”
TL;DR: Orientalism as mentioned in this paper is defined as the "ineradicable distinction between Western superiority and Oriental inferiority" and it has been called "the hegemonism of possessing minorities" and anthropocentrism allied with Europocentricity.
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The Postcolonial Exotic : Marketing the Margins
TL;DR: The Postcolonial Exotic as mentioned in this paper examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field using varied methods of analysis, and discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption.
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Boutique Multiculturalism, or Why Liberals Are Incapable of Thinking about Hate Speech
TL;DR: Boutique multiculturalism is the multiculturalism of ethnic restaurants, weekend festivals and high profile flirtations with the other in the manner satirized by Tom Wolfe under the rubric of "radical chic" as mentioned in this paper.