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"Visions Of Me In The Whitest Raw Light": Assimilation And Doxic Whiteness In Chang-Rae Lee's 'Native Speaker', Tim Engles
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In Chang-rae Lee's first novel, 'Native Speaker,' the protagonist is jolted by the death of his son and the subsequent departure of his wife into intensification of a lifelong identity crisis. The book's guiding metaphor, figured in Henry Park's job as a spy, cleverly elucidates the immigrant's stance as a watchful outsider in American society, but Henry's double life also figures largely in his equally representative struggles to decide for himself what kind of person he is. As a child of immigrant parents, Henry is, in Pierre Bourdieu's useful terms, endowed with a bifurcated "habitus," two sets of culturally induced …
"Visions Of Me In The Whitest Raw Light": Assimilation And Doxic Whiteness In Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker, Tim Engles
"Visions Of Me In The Whitest Raw Light": Assimilation And Doxic Whiteness In Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker, Tim Engles
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Pratiques Funéraires Et Mentalités Paiennes, Bailey Young
Pratiques Funéraires Et Mentalités Paiennes, Bailey Young
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A l'occasion de ce colloque de commemoration du bapteme de Clovis etde reflexion sur son contexte, ses causes et ses consequences, j' ai choisi derevenir, suivant !'invitation de Michel Rouche, aux terres de chasse de mathese. Elles sont en fait des terres de cimetiere, et aussi des terres d' affrontement- aux yeux de bien des archeologues merovingiens - entre traditionsfuneraires pa·iennes, enracinees dans un passe plus ou moins profond, et nouvellespratiques chretiennes, qui avaient l'avenir devant elles. Permettez-moi,en guise d'introduction, de vous faire remonter aux premiers jours de l'etudescientifique des sepultures de l'Antiquite tardive et du haut Moyen Age.
"Visions Of Me In The Whitest Raw Light": Assimilation And Doxic Whiteness In Chang-Rae Lee's 'Native Speaker', Tim Engles
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
In Chang-rae Lee's first novel, 'Native Speaker,' the protagonist is jolted by the death of his son and the subsequent departure of his wife into intensification of a lifelong identity crisis. The book's guiding metaphor, figured in Henry Park's job as a spy, cleverly elucidates the immigrant's stance as a watchful outsider in American society, but Henry's double life also figures largely in his equally representative struggles to decide for himself what kind of person he is. As a child of immigrant parents, Henry is, in Pierre Bourdieu's useful terms, endowed with a bifurcated "habitus," two sets of culturally induced …