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This article aims to examine how socio-econo-political values of homelands interrupt immigrants’ adjustment to American society by reading Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban, Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Jumph Lahiri’s The Namesake in the perspective of M. M. Bakhtin, emphasizing the importance of ideas or ideologies in a hero’s identity formation. In these novels, the authors commonly criticize that the ideologies of homelands make it impossible for immigrants to enjoy a free and independent life. Here, ideological criticisms are entirely done in the way that anachronic ideologies in mother cultures are meticulously projected into the images of ancestor characters, and the absurdities are candidly exposed by protagonists interacting with them. Why these ideological criticisms are persuasive is that the incompatibility between traditional values of homelands and American reality is revealed through the protagonists’ ideological becoming. As a result, it is found that Cuban androcentrism and Castro’s communism, Korean Confucian patriarchy and careerism, and Indian family centrism are inappropriate for the diasporic reality. With the world being globalized and expatriates increasing, understanding these ideological problems is important not only to immigrants, but also to immigration policy-developers.

목차

I. The Meaning of Homeland Culture to a Diasporic Self
II. The Bakhtinian Hero Model as a Tool of Socio-cultural Value Analysis
III. Homeland Culture and Diasporic Identity
IV. Being a True Cosmopolitan
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• Park, Geum-Hee [ Chosun University, Professor ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810