The (re)birth of Mona Changowitz: rituals and ceremonies of cultural conversion and self-making in Mona in the promised land.(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Much has been written of the cultural alternatives of continuity, rapture, or invention in recent years. It has become a pervasive thread that runs not only throughout the cultural production of ethnic "intracultures" such as the Asian American one, but also throughout the cultural production of the "mainstream" United States, for, as Oscar Handlin points out, the history of immigration is the history of America (qtd. in Sollors, "Literature" 649). All three stances, cultural continuity, rupture, and invention, find an appropriate formal representation in the trope of the ...

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