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The immigrant experience in North American literature : carving out a niche
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- Creator
- edited by Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xxvii, 190 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313308918, 0313308918
- OCLC
- ocm40180154
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: stories of the uprooted / Katherine Payant -- In(ter)dependent selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish immigrant women's autobiography / Wendy Zierler -- Justifying individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread givers / Martin Japtok -- Fighting the trolls on the Dakota plains: the ecstasy and the agony of Norwegian immigrants' lives in O.E. Rolvaag's Giants in the earth / Raychel Haugrud Reiff -- Jasmine or the americanization of an Asian: negotiating between "cultural arrest" and moral decay in immigrant fictions / Gönül Pultar -- Developing negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Jacqueline Doyle -- Speaking and listening: the immigrant as spy who comes in from the cold / June Dwyer -- Repositioning the stars: twentieth-century narratives of Asian American immigration / Qun Wang -- Borderland themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman hollering creek / Katherine Payant -- Crossroads are our roads: Paule Marshall's portrayal of immigrant identity themes / Toby Rose -- Motherland versus daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the sun / Carmen Faymonville -- Obasan and hybridity: necessary cultural strategies / Matthew Beedham -- Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American / Zhou Xiaojing
Subjects
- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- Canadian literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings, Canadian -- History and criticism.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.