Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activiti...Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.展开更多
基金this paper is funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Bildungsroman”(18A369),sponsored by Department of Education of Hunan Province.
文摘Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.