The American Family and Consumer Economics

Chapter four turns to a more intimate form of affiliation than either nation or community: family. The period from the 1970s onward has produced the greatest concentration of cycles since modernism, because writers embraced the cycle to express the contingency of being ethnic and American. Family, rather than community or time, is the dominant linking structure for many of these cycles, reflecting how immigration laws placed family and education above country of origin. This chapter focuses on the role of family in the production and reception of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989), Julie Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008). These cycles argue that subjectivity—and by extension gender and ethnic attachments—derives not only from biological relationships but also from “formative kinship,” which originates in shared experiences that the characters choose to value.

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: The American Family in the Twentieth Century . John Sirjamaki.

Social Problems ◽

10.1525/sp.1954.1.4.03a00140 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 174-175

Author(s):

Reuben Hill

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

American Family

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ACCULTURATION AS A DETERMINANT OF GREEK-AMERICAN FAMILY VALUES

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.83.7.1163-1172 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 83 (7) ◽

pp. 1163 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

ALLEN C. HARRIS

Keyword(s):

Family Values ◽

American Family

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Alex Haley, As A Family Genealogist Who Traced His Roots From His Ancestors.

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v22i6.9369 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (6) ◽

pp. 2569-2572

Author(s):

K. STALIN ◽

S. S. Jansi Rani

Keyword(s):

American Family ◽

American Writer ◽

Popular Novel ◽

Seven Generations ◽

Alex Haley

Alex Haley, a famous biographer, novelist and a family genealogist of an American writer. His most popular novel Roots is published in the year 1976. Roots: The Saga of An American Family, has 688 page fictional description of the genealogy of his family beginning with a kidnapped his ancestors of village Gambia. Roots covering seven generations, the story did not stop here. Alex Haley went two centuries back to find the trace of Kunta Kinte’s roots existence. Haley did claim that his actual ancestor was identified as Kunta Kinte as per the Griot, the story teller.

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