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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Katherine B Payant; Toby Rose |
| ISBN: | 0313308918 9780313308918 |
| OCLC Number: | 40180154 |
| Description: | xxvii, 190 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of American literature, no. 4 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose. |
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- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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- Emigration and immigration in literature.
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- Minorities in literature.
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- Littérature américaine -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique
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- Écrits d'immigrants canadiens -- Histoire et critique
- Émigration et immigration dans la littérature
- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature
- Immigrants dans la littérature
- Minorités dans la littérature
- Ethnicité dans la littérature
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- Immigranten.
- Immigratie.
- Minderheden.
- Amerikaans.
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