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The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs
2022. urn:nbn:hr:131:984401
Bognar, Mirna
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Bognar, M. (2022). The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

Bognar, Mirna. "The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

Bognar, Mirna. "The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

Bognar, M. (2022). 'The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 14 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

Bognar M. The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2022 [cited 2025 January 14] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

M. Bognar, "The Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2022. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:984401

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TitleThe Development of Female Identity in Asian American Women's Memoirs
AuthorMirna Bognar
MentorJelena Šesnić (mentor)
Committee memberSven Cvek (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberHrvoje Tutek (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2022-12-22, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper examines the development of the representation of identity in Asian American women’s memoirs in the period around the Second World War. More accurately, it is interested to see how memoirs can serve as a tool to create Asian American woman as a subject or, in other words, how Asian American women use the genres of life-writing to create alternative ethnic and gender narrative plots, thus subverting discourses of power, while also defying the Western expectations about the Oriental other. The paper offers the analyses of Jade Snow Wong’s memoir Fifth Chinese Daughter and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar, a memoir which she co-authored with her husband James D. Houston. The paper does not aim to make broad claims about Asian American women’s memoirs, but takes a narrower approach by focusing on individual narratives, while also paying attention to the historical, discursive, social and political contexts in which the memoirs were created.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:984401
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (single major); specializations in: TEFL, Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation
Course: Literature and Culture
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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Created on2022-12-22 10:43:17