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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

3

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

14-19

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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