Assimilation and Modernity——A Case Study of Abraham Cahan’s “The Imported Bridegroom”

• 作者: 贺亚男
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: Jewish-Americans ASSIMILATION modernity "The IMPORTED Bridegroom" ABRAHAM Cahan
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（6）
• 页码范围: 257-258
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: G171.2

摘要

In the modern era, the Jewish-Americans were faced with challenges because of the assimilation and modernity environment in the US, and as a result, many of them were in a double bind—to be an assimilated American citizen or to be a traditional Jew. With his work"The Imported Bridegroom", Abraham Cahan contemplated on the subject of Jewish immigration and assimilation and he made a ground-breaking contribution to the establishment of American modernity. This paper intends to analyze Cahan’s attitudes towards assimilation and modernity and how he builds up modernity for all of the Americans. Three characters in"The Imported Bridegroom", who stand for three prototypes of modern Jewish-Americans confronting the overwhelming flood of assimilation and the duty for retaining their traditions, will be analyzed. Through the composition of this work, Cahan tried to spread the Jewish culture on the one hand, and on the other, he warned the peripheral that it was difficult to be assimilated without disasters even if they had made contribution to the formation of modernity.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	贺亚男	南京大学外国语学院	2	0	0.0	0.0