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.

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

Canadian literature.

Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, American.

Immigrants' writings, Canadian--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, Canadian.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

North America--Intellectual life.

North America.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

American literature--Minority authors.

Canadian literature--Minority authors.

Intellectual life.

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

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

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 190 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Immigrant experience in North American literature.

ISBN:

0313308918

9780313308918

OCLC:

40180154