Inauthentic by Vincent J Cheng

Inauthentic by Vincent J Cheng

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Summary

Each chapter in this text explores the ways in which we construct ""authenticity"" in order to replace seemingly vacated identities, including: the place of minorities in academia; mixed-race dynamics; the popularity of Irish culture in America; the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland; and the Jewish American identity.

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Inauthentic by Vincent J Cheng

Each chapter in this text explores the ways in which we construct authenticity in order to replace seemingly vacated identities, including: the place of minorities in academia; mixed-race dynamics; the popularity of Irish culture in America; the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland; and the Jewish American identity.
Cheng effectively combines the scholarly and the personal, adding critical insight and human interest to a topic that will surely attract the attention of both scholars and laymen- King-Kok Cheung, author of Articulate Silences
VINCENT J. CHENG is the author of many scholarly articles and several books, including Joyce, Race, and Empire. He has taught at the University of Southern California, and is currently the Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah, and the director of the Tanner Humanities Center.
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ISBN 13 9780813534015
ISBN 10 0813534011
Title Inauthentic
Author Vincent J Cheng
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Year published 2004-04-23
Number of pages 220
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