Literary Critical Analysis- ENG 263 Contemporary literature of the United States

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The Rules of Self- Identity Construction

Everyone goes through the struggle to find self-identity . Lost and confused , people attempt to deal with the struggle with the help of friends , family , school , or community , but later end up just letting things pass by or going with the flow ' and not realizing the factors that actually lead to the struggle . In Minh-ha 's Woman , Native Other ' the author explores some factors that affect self-identity construction , such as changes , differences , and stories . Knowing these factors would help a person

deal with the struggle at hand , and at the same time construct a reliable form of other people 's identity

The author introduces her claims using an argument against language . In her explanation , she critiques language use , which often employs generalizations among people . In the introduction , the author enumerates personal pronouns such as I , you , we , etc . as misleading notions that generalize among peoples , and in turn neglect differences and individuality . To emphasize her point , Minh-ha claims that I ' for instance , is not a unified subject , a fixed identity (649 . She points out that in to present the person 's true being , one has to know the aspects of the self within

Finding out the real aspects of a person leads to knowing or uncovering differences or negating characteristics that do not conform to a fixed identity . This implies that the use of I ' or even other personal pronouns fails to present the real nature of a person . In saying...