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Gendered Quests: Analysis, Revelation And The Epistemology Of Gender In Neera's "Teresa", "Lydia" And "L'Indomani", Silvia Valisa
Gendered Quests: Analysis, Revelation And The Epistemology Of Gender In Neera's "Teresa", "Lydia" And "L'Indomani", Silvia Valisa
Silvia Valisa
This essay is devoted to Milanese fin-de-siècle writer Neera, more specifically to the three novels composing her “ciclo della donna giovane” (the young woman’s cycle). I examine the striking similarity of the epistemological projects of the three heroines, i.e. their attempt to combine an analytical project with a revelatory structure in order to overcome their contradictory status of narrative subjects and social objects. I consider these projects "gendered" in that they are quests disturbed by a structural and epistemological bias that forecloses a full access to experience and knowledge. The different outcomes of the quests are determined by these women’s …
Acculturation, Allen Gnanam
Acculturation, Allen Gnanam
Allen Gnanam
Acculturation is an experience/ phenomenon that occurs when groups of individuals with different cultural backgrounds engage in on going/ continuous physical contact, which in turn causes one or more of the different cultures too experience adaptation/ a change in their original cultural practices (Berry, 1997); (Berry, 2008). Acculturation is a phenomenon that occurs at a macro level/ group level and a micro level/ individual level, and this means that an individual of a certain ethnic minority group can experience acculturation differently than their ethnic minority group (Berry, 1997). Macro level acculturation occurs when the original culture of a specific ethnic …