[단행본] The Crossroads of Two Cultures
Step Over Boundaries: Redefining Ethnocentrism and Phenotype in American Literature has emerged from the recent wave of interest in ethnic literatures such as African American, Mexican American, Native American, and Asian American literature. This book could easily be used in the many courses in multiethnic literature that are being created today on college campuses across this country. The scope of a multicultural study must by its nature be wide-ranging. It would be a mistake, however, to think that ethnic literature is itself a new phenomenon. Ethnic literature is probably nearly as old as literature itself. American society is anything but homogeneous. Thus the hypothesis of my book is to criticize the ideology of individualism in American society. To explore this issue I embarked on an adventure that resulted in this multicultural study with the ethnically identified title “Step Over Boundaries.”
Given the dichotomization of American society into black and white, it is virtually impossible to perceive the larger whole without some strategy for a cross-cultural, multiethnic study. Ethnic literature fundamentally helps us to redefine the very notion of “American.” Ethnic American literature is itself a process--in its stories of assimilation and resistance, of immigration and oppression--and demands a criticism that is equally flexible and fluid. Ethnic American literature, by the way it breaks traditional boundaries, often leads us to new insights about literary genres like autobiographies, short stories, novels, and personal essays. Especially author examines representations of physical and psychological racial markers of mixed race peoples as they are expressed in 20th century Chicano, Asian American, African American, and Native American literary texts.
From my perspective, if we continue to overlook the relationships and connections among American cultures and persist in separatism, we will surely perpetuate misunderstandings that even now have serious repercussions in educational institutions and in the larger society. Fortunately enough, critics have recently begun to give greater attention to the historical and cultural traditions of ethnic literature. When we turn to other ethnic American literature, we find the same pattern holds true. Readings of Native American literature or Mexican and Asian American literatures are enriched by an understanding of traditional Indian or Asian and Mexican notions of history and geography and by familiarity with the traumatic changes in Native American or Asian and Mexican American cultures after their forced assimilation into white culture. Essentially the experiences of Mexican Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans are particularly the same on both sides of the borders of North America. Meanwhile southern borders of America have always been historically arbitrary and continue to separate people who are ethnically related: both Native American and Mexican American populations trace their roots to two sides of the border simultaneously.
In this book I seek to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to American Ethnic Literature. Each essay conveniently begins with an analysis of the themes and forms of the work, describing its most significant cultural foundations and qualities. I have made a similar choice in my university teaching. By exploring literatures by non-European Americans in undergraduate and graduate courses with the assumption that the four broad categories of African American, Asian American. Latino/a, and Native American are equally important, my students and I have gained significant insight, which would have escaped us had we studied one ethnic group exclusively. I indeed wrote this book largely because I have often wished that I had such a book for use as a text in my own teaching, though the genesis probably goes back to my own student days when I myself could have profited greatly from such a text. Basically the collection could be adopted in other classes, particularly in genre courses and in surveys of American literature.
The book grows directly out of my own experiences in teaching ethnic literature and criticism to both undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Arkansas and California State University, San Bernadino. In pursuing this project I have been privileged to encounter several people who care enough to insist on keeping me honest. Given that this book represents a summation in introductory form of what I myself have learned and experienced about ethnic literature and culture over the course of my own studies, I wish to thank my former mentors: Dr. Keith Booker, Charles H. Adams, Dr. John C. Guilds and Dr. James R. Bennett. My gratitude to them is beyond words. I also want to thank those who have contributed directly to the development of this project into a finished book. Colleagues at the University of Foreign Studies read and commented on most of portions of the manuscript.
Most of all, I thank my wife and my two loving sons for their understanding, encouragement, advice, sacrifice and everything else. Without the essential and unwavering support of my family, I could not have accomplished my goal. I could not have done it without any of you. I am really honored to be part of such a dedicated tribe.
Introduction: A New Awareness of Ethnic Diversity and Long-neglected Ethnic Materials
Chapter I : The Dual Identity of the Conflict between a Discarded East and a Rejecting West
Chapter II : The Burgeoning Cultural Force
Chapter III: Border Crossings: Reformulation of Daughters' Shared Consciousness and Disconnection from the Two Cultures in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
Chapter IV : Struggle for a Sense of Identity and Selfhood: "Were Women the originators as Human Culture?" in MayaAngelou' s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Chapter V : Deconstructing stereotypes about Asia: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Chapter VI : The Identity Crisis in PauleMarshall's The ChosenPlace, The Timeless People
Chapter VII : The Betrayal of the Ilmorog Community in Ngugi's Petals of Blood
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