Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 801799
The Experience of Exile and Cultural Adaptation in Yezierska's Bread Givers
The Experience of Exile and Cultural Adaptation in Yezierska's Bread Givers // Litcri '15 / Bariş Öztürk (ur.).
Istanbul: Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center, 2015. str. 24-36 (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni)
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Naslov
The Experience of Exile and Cultural Adaptation in Yezierska's Bread Givers
Autori
Bančić, Ivana
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni
Izvornik
Litcri '15
/ Bariş Öztürk - Istanbul : Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center, 2015, 24-36
ISBN
978-605-9207-09-6
Skup
Litcri '15 / IV. Literary Criticism Conference
Mjesto i datum
Istanbul, Turska, 13.11.2015. - 14.11.2015
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
American Modernism; Ethnic and Patriarchal Bargain; Cultural Adaptation; Exile
Sažetak
The paper analyses the complexities of the concept of the foreign in the novel Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, a representative of ethnic modernism in American literature. The starting point for the analysis of Sara Smolinsky, the protagonist, is the hypothesis that she presents a stranger in the US society on multiple levels: as a member of the Jewish minority in the USA, as an Eastern European Jew within the Jewish community, and as a woman in a patriarchal society. North (1996, p. 6) stipulates that the ability to modify one's identity represents the key component of American modernism. The complexity of Smolinsky's position calls for an analysis of her capacity to rebuild her identity and adapt her personality to the surrounding circumstances. Since Smolinsky represents a stranger among foreigners on several aforementioned levels, the paper employs Butler's theory on gender identity in the specific situation of exile. In addition to the analysis of identity adaptation, the paper explores the parallelism of Sara's physical and geographical movement and the development of her identity on her journey from the Jewish ghetto toward her goal: white, middle-class, American femininity. As this struggle for acceptance by the mainstream society includes making concessions, the paper introduces the idea of the protagonist striking an ethnic and patriarchal bargain.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Filologija
