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- Title
Identity Configuration and Ideological Manipulation in Nicholas Gage's "A Place for Us."
- Authors
Arapoglou, Eleftheria
- Abstract
This article focuses on the identity configuration and ideological manipulations in the book "A Place for Us" by Nicholas Gage. As a modem epic, "A Place for Us" thematically centers on a narrative of adventure, an account of events that traces the life story of the central figure, Nick. At the same time, however, the text is also a narrative of conversion from ethnic to American, a story of immigrant transformation that stresses identity reconfiguration and establishes a clear distinction between the old and the new self and worlds, or between past and present. The text of "A Place for Us" complicates and problematizes the border of ethnic difference since the communal bonds that the autobiographical narrator establishes in the U.S. through the cultural systems of religion and language prove more powerful and effective than his native Greek patriotic sensibility and sense of national belonging. Gage's identity formation manifests itself in the ideological conflicts inherent in the autobiographical narrator's encounter with the host and home cultures and results in an identification that is susceptible to ideological fashioning.
- Subjects
PLACE for Us: Eleni's Children in America, A (Book); GAGE, Nicholas; IMMIGRANTS; ACCULTURATION; CULTURE; GREEKS
- Publication
MELUS, 2005, Vol 30, Issue 3, p71
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/melus/30.3.71