LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF SHAPING NEW CULTURAL IDENTITY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR
LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF SHAPING NEW CULTURAL IDENTITY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR

Summary/Abstract: "Reed Way Dasenbrock (1987:10) contends that multicultural literature includes works which explicitly deal with multicultural societies and those that are implicitly multicultural in the sense of inscribing readers from other cultures inside their own textual dynamics. Multicultural texts as a rule have barriers in the understanding strategically and selectively placed by the authors before readers who do not possess the knowledge of the culture and language to which the texts belong, forcing them thus to actively search for the intelligibility and in doing so become part of the meaning of the text. The work of finding the meaning leads readers to understand the way language shapes our perception of the "[...]

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