Family, History and the Formation of Identity in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Family, History and the Formation of Identity in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Original language description

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) focuses on two Jewish cousins who first meet in their late teens: Samuel Clay, who had been brought up by his mother in Brooklyn, and Josef (Joe) Kavalier, the only member of his Prague-based family that escapes to America before WWII. While the cousins succeed in the developing comic book industry to which many Jewish Americans have contributed, their personal identities are complicated by other features of American life during WWII. Whereas Sammy suffers from the absence of his father and struggles with the realization of his homosexuality which is not easily accepted by contemporary society, Joe finds it too hard to function as his American girlfriend's partner while dealing with the successive announcements of his family members' deaths in Europe. Thus, this paper examines how the historical circumstances and familial backgrounds of the two protagonists influence their identity formation.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

14-19

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