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Tag Archives: identity
A Fictional Father
It seems that the only way Alison Bechdel can understand her father, along with her father’s relationship to her mother, his love interests and children is by use of allusions to other fictional characters. Throughout her tragicomic, Bechdel relies heavily … Continue reading
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Little Feet, Big Heart
Maxine Hong Kingston’s struggle with identity can be traced explicitly to her childhood in White Tiger. In the first paragraph of this chapter, she writes innocently that “perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet … Continue reading
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Duality of Personality: Character Sketch
I am two people. I am me and I am Tanner Brown. But that’s not really me. I am not Tanner Brown, rather I am the antithesis of him. And I exist where he exists, step within his footprints of … Continue reading
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The Identity of Cabeza de Vaca
While Cabeza’s autobiography centers around his travels, turmoils, and exploration of the new world, he clearly forms his own identity throughout the narrative. Cabeza’s identity is especially important, as one of his goals as an explorer, colonizer, and writer is … Continue reading
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The Communal Identity of Self in Red Eagle’s Oral Coup Tale
One of the things that I most enjoyed about the readings on the oral Native American tales, especially the coup tales, was that their stories “played a vital role in maintaining a sense of identity—individual and tribal” (26). Like we … Continue reading
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The Mysterious “Self”: Autobiographical Subjectivity
Personally, I resist the idea that Smith and Watson continually make in their book Reading Autobiography, suggesting that a “self” is not unique, but rests on the basis of pre-determined languages and politics, influences, etc. While it is true that … Continue reading
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The Self as Story
Who are we? What is our essential identity? What if I said that we, as human beings, exist in the form of something as seemingly ephemeral and changeable as a story? I want to suggest just that: we don’t exist separately … Continue reading
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