The immigrant experience in North American literature : carving out a niche / edited by Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Payant, Katherine B.

Rose, Toby.

Series:

Contributions to the study of American literature 1092-6356 ; no. 4.

Contributions to the study of American literature, 1092-6356 ; no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Minority authors.

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.

Immigrants' writings, Canadian.

Immigrants' writings, American.

Canadian literature--Minority authors.

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 190 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Summary:

Using current literary and cultural theory, expert contributors analyze a wide range of American literature reflecting the experience of European and non-western immigrant groups.

Contents:

Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted / Katherine Payant xiii

1. In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography / Wendy Zierler 1

2. Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers / Martin Japtok 17

3. 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 31

4. Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions / Gonul Pultar 45

5. Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Jacqueline Doyle 59

6. Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold / June Dwyer 73

7. Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration / Qun Wang 83

8. Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek / Katherine Payant 95

9. Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes / Toby Rose 109

10. Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun / Carmen Faymonville 123

11. Obasan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies / Matthew Beedham 139

12. Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American / Zhou Xiaojing 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-181) and index.

ISBN:

0313308918

OCLC:

40180154