Artikel
The rewriting of home : autobiographies by daughters of immigrants
Verfasst von:
Lindenmeyer, Antje
in:
Women's studies international forum
New York [u.a.]:
2001
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423 - 432 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Lindenmeyer, Antje |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article will explore the autobiographies of three writers who were daughters of immigrants (Audre Lorde, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eva Hoffman), focusing on the connections between the autobiographers and their parent's place of origin. I will argue that this takes the form of a myth of origin: the autobiographers recreate a magical homeland, or the strong emotions of a childhood that resembles a lost paradise. However, they also show the fraught relationship between daughters of immigrants and this place of origin: for all autobiographers who are second-generation immigrants, "ome" can never be fully recovered, but has to be reclaimed and rewritten. On the other hand, Lorde and Kingston, as feminist autobiographers, context the patriarchal traditions that prevail in their places of origin. They fashion a matrilinear tradition of strong ancestresses that challenges the tradition of fathers and sustains them against the isolation they encounter in the diaspora. | |
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