A Fence or A Door : Perception of Christianity in Earlier Asian
American Female

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A Fence or A Door : Perception of Christianity in Earlier Asian American Female

ŠMILAUEROVÁ, Tereza

Basic information

Original name

A Fence or A Door : Perception of Christianity in Earlier Asian American Female

Authors

ŠMILAUEROVÁ, Tereza

Edition

11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2020

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Asian American women; Asian American authors; American literature in 20th century; Christianity perception; religion in literature

Abstract

V originále

American Christianity has been associated chiefly with a white middle-class recently so it may come surprising that more than 40 % of Asian Americans affiliate with Christianity, constituting the largest Asian American subgroup faith-wise. It is acknowledged that Christian Asian Americans gravitate towards conservatism and assimilation, while non-affiliated are inclined to liberalism and cultural hybridization. This paper thus analyses the stances towards Christianity in novels by Asian American women prior to 2000 and argues that those authors, who usually directly describe themselves as non-affiliated or agnostic, are indeed representative of non-affiliated Asian Americans, as the role Christianity plays in those books is usually hostile, alienating, obscure, or rigid. The authors used for the analysis are Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Bharati Mukherjee, representing Asian American female writing in the second half of the 20th century.

Links

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Acronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

ŠMILAUEROVÁ, Tereza. A Fence or A Door : Perception of Christianity in Earlier Asian American Female. In 11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. 2020.

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ŠMILAUEROVÁ, Tereza. A Fence or A Door : Perception of Christianity in Earlier Asian American Female. In \textit{11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : ''Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions'', 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University}. 2020.

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