%0 Journal Article
%T Encountering the Familiarity of a Foreign Culture: Julie Dash's Novel Daughters of the Dust
%A Gerund
%A Katharina
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2010
%I University of Regensburg
%X This essay analyzes Julie Dash¡¯s 1997 novel Daughters of the Dust with regard to its portrayal of the Gullah culture, its strategies of familiarizing an outsider readership with a foreign culture, and the way it depicts representations of culture in anthropology and literature. The analysis works on two levels: it examines how intercultural encounters are portrayed in the novel as well as how the novel itself functions as ¡°entry point¡± to the Gullah culture. It argues that Dash presents cultures as distinct though not disclosed entities where boundaries can be transgressed though not transcended.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/121/145