Pirjo Ahokas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6022920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pirjo Ahokas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pirjo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahokas |
| SIGNATURE | AHOKAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transracial Adoption, Memory, and Mobile, Processual Identity in Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road
Representations of adoptions tend to concentrate on normatively conceived forms of identity, which prioritize the genetic lineage of adoptees. In contrast, scholarship on autobiographical writing emphasizes that identities are not fixed but are always in process and intersectional because they are formed in within inequal power relations. Kay’s experimental, autobiographical narrative Red Dust Road (2010) tackles the themes of adoption, the searc…
The Vietnam War, the Whale Hunt and the Wall in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale
Native Americans participated in the Vietnam War in a disproportionally large number in relation to their actual population in the United States. Nevertheless, few American Indian novelists have dealt with the war and its legacy. This article explores the significance of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Pacific Northwest Coast to the protagonist's war trauma in Linda Hogan's novel People of the Whale (2008). Drawing upon Michelle Balaev's pl…
Challenging the Color-Blind American Dream
In historical terms the culture-specific notion of “the American Dream” has excluded racialized groups of people. However, the rise of postethnic and color-blind thinking in the past few decades implies that ethnic and racial equality has already been realized in the United States where people are free to choose their ethnic identities. Adoption as a literary trope is regarded as important because it allows authors to speak of broader questions a…
It's strange what you don't forget
This article discusses the .female identity construction rd' the daughter figure in Jayne Anne Phillips 's Machine Dreams ( 1984) . It looks al the novel through the lens of contemporary.feminist theory, which utilizes insightsjimn postmodem and poststructuralist thought. Moreove1; the analysis draws on critical studies of whiteness . It argues that.fragments qffamily history reveal the decisive influence of intersecting discourses of gende1; eth…
Maxine hong kingston's the woman warrior
Concentrating on the intersection of gender oppression and racial discrimination, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior recognizes and addresses the presence of a simultaneity of oppressions. In discussing this book, which has created a long and heated controversy in the Asian‐American community, I explore the ways in which the protagonist's constituting of an “I” are related to questions of ethnic and racial identity on the one hand, and to q…
"Crossing the Sun and Lifting into the Mountains?" The Eccentric Subject in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior
Annette Wernblad's 'Brooklyn Is Not Expanding
Bernard Malamud's fiction and the rise of ethnic literary studies
The increasing visibility of a number of previously marginalized literary cultures is one of the most challenging developments in post-war American fiction. My dissertation deals with the novels of Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), a contemporary Jewish-American author, whose work is linked with this phenomenon as well as other significant trends in the recent literature of the United States. It is customary to think that ethnic authors write within t…
Through the Ghetto to Giotto
The underlying paradigm in Bernard Malamud's novels is the universal archetypal heroic journey, which in itself reflects the problematic relationship between self and society. As a narrative deep structure it provides the author with a richly allusive unifying principle which supports the development of the major themes of his fiction. The author's focus is always on the protagonists, who function as his instruments for social criticism. All the …
Jewish/Christian symbolism in Bernard Malamud's novel God's grace
Besides being one of the major American authors of the postwar period, Bernard Malamud is also one of the leading representatives of contemporary Jewish fiction. When God's Grace was published, it received very mixed reviews and the novel is likely to remain one of Malamud’s most controversial books. Part of the audience’s puzzlement derives from the fact that with its grotesque characters and strange events God’s Grace seems to defy definition. …
Two Immigrations
Maxine hong kingston's the woman warrior
Concentrating on the intersection of gender oppression and racial discrimination, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior recognizes and addresses the presence of a simultaneity of oppressions. In discussing this book, which has created a long and heated controversy in the Asian‐American community, I explore the ways in which the protagonist's constituting of an “I” are related to questions of ethnic and racial identity on the one hand, and to q…
Two Immigrations
Jewish/Christian symbolism in Bernard Malamud's novel God's grace
Besides being one of the major American authors of the postwar period, Bernard Malamud is also one of the leading representatives of contemporary Jewish fiction. When God's Grace was published, it received very mixed reviews and the novel is likely to remain one of Malamud’s most controversial books. Part of the audience’s puzzlement derives from the fact that with its grotesque characters and strange events God’s Grace seems to defy definition. …
Through the Ghetto to Giotto
The underlying paradigm in Bernard Malamud's novels is the universal archetypal heroic journey, which in itself reflects the problematic relationship between self and society. As a narrative deep structure it provides the author with a richly allusive unifying principle which supports the development of the major themes of his fiction. The author's focus is always on the protagonists, who function as his instruments for social criticism. All the …
Bernard Malamud's fiction and the rise of ethnic literary studies
The increasing visibility of a number of previously marginalized literary cultures is one of the most challenging developments in post-war American fiction. My dissertation deals with the novels of Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), a contemporary Jewish-American author, whose work is linked with this phenomenon as well as other significant trends in the recent literature of the United States. It is customary to think that ethnic authors write within t…
Annette Wernblad's 'Brooklyn Is Not Expanding
"Crossing the Sun and Lifting into the Mountains?" The Eccentric Subject in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior
Maxine hong kingston's the woman warrior
Concentrating on the intersection of gender oppression and racial discrimination, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior recognizes and addresses the presence of a simultaneity of oppressions. In discussing this book, which has created a long and heated controversy in the Asian‐American community, I explore the ways in which the protagonist's constituting of an “I” are related to questions of ethnic and racial identity on the one hand, and to q…
It's strange what you don't forget
This article discusses the .female identity construction rd' the daughter figure in Jayne Anne Phillips 's Machine Dreams ( 1984) . It looks al the novel through the lens of contemporary.feminist theory, which utilizes insightsjimn postmodem and poststructuralist thought. Moreove1; the analysis draws on critical studies of whiteness . It argues that.fragments qffamily history reveal the decisive influence of intersecting discourses of gende1; eth…
Challenging the Color-Blind American Dream
In historical terms the culture-specific notion of “the American Dream” has excluded racialized groups of people. However, the rise of postethnic and color-blind thinking in the past few decades implies that ethnic and racial equality has already been realized in the United States where people are free to choose their ethnic identities. Adoption as a literary trope is regarded as important because it allows authors to speak of broader questions a…
The Vietnam War, the Whale Hunt and the Wall in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale
Native Americans participated in the Vietnam War in a disproportionally large number in relation to their actual population in the United States. Nevertheless, few American Indian novelists have dealt with the war and its legacy. This article explores the significance of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Pacific Northwest Coast to the protagonist's war trauma in Linda Hogan's novel People of the Whale (2008). Drawing upon Michelle Balaev's pl…
Transracial Adoption, Memory, and Mobile, Processual Identity in Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road
Representations of adoptions tend to concentrate on normatively conceived forms of identity, which prioritize the genetic lineage of adoptees. In contrast, scholarship on autobiographical writing emphasizes that identities are not fixed but are always in process and intersectional because they are formed in within inequal power relations. Kay’s experimental, autobiographical narrative Red Dust Road (2010) tackles the themes of adoption, the searc…
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