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The transcultural Bildungsroman by contemporary women writers of color.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The transcultural Bildungsroman by contemporary women writers of color./
Author:	Cha, Heejung.
Description:	262 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2146.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3221901
ISBN:	9780542749803

The transcultural Bildungsroman by contemporary women writers of color.
Cha, Heejung.

The transcultural Bildungsroman by contemporary women writers of color. - 262 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2146.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

This study explores representation and explanation in terms of Bildung by contemporary women writers of color. I coin and formulate the term "transcultural Bildungsroman" as a subversive genre that challenges and transforms the hegemonic literary genre, Bildungsroman, which is 'a novel of formation.' The traditional Bildungsroman describes the development of a young white man from childhood to maturity and presents the optimistic and ideal paradigm of harmonious socialization. In contrast, the transcultural Bildungsroman traces the developmental process of a daughter of color caught between intensified cultural boundaries (white-dominant culture and marginalized ethnic culture or cultural imperialism and cultural nativism) that rigidly define her identity. It portrays a critical negotiating process of the daughter of color to reconstruct a sense of self in a limiting environment.

ISBN: 9780542749803Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The transcultural Bildungsroman by contemporary women writers of color.
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520 $a This study explores representation and explanation in terms of Bildung by contemporary women writers of color. I coin and formulate the term "transcultural Bildungsroman" as a subversive genre that challenges and transforms the hegemonic literary genre, Bildungsroman, which is 'a novel of formation.' The traditional Bildungsroman describes the development of a young white man from childhood to maturity and presents the optimistic and ideal paradigm of harmonious socialization. In contrast, the transcultural Bildungsroman traces the developmental process of a daughter of color caught between intensified cultural boundaries (white-dominant culture and marginalized ethnic culture or cultural imperialism and cultural nativism) that rigidly define her identity. It portrays a critical negotiating process of the daughter of color to reconstruct a sense of self in a limiting environment.
520 $a In historicized readings of the transcultural Bildungsromans, which are Linda Hogan's Power, Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, with postcolonial, transnational, feminist theories, I explore the ongoing transformation of a daughter-narrator from a passive observer (silenced object) to an active doer (speaking subject) in a feminist sense of self. Mirroring the conflict between individual desire and cultural expectation in the Bildung narratives, women of color problematize the patriarchal, racialized concepts of femininity and female body and call to question identity, memory, home, and community. I also analyze women's struggle, strength, creativity, and imagination in sociopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts.
520 $a Throughout the study, following Audre Lorde's notion of "the creative function of difference," I suggest "interdependent difference" which engages the categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and culture. It opens up possibilities for the continual transformation of a way people understand the world and self-other relation without trivializing difference. I conclude that transcultural and transnational reading practices of developmental narratives by women of color can engage in enriching the reader's Bildung in a global reality. Pushing away imaginative limits, the literary Bildung of a daughter of color renews the meaning of difference that may genuinely reduce sexual, racial, and cultural conflicts among people confronted with the unequal forces of globalization.
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