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[First edition]. |
| Description |
xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Note |
Edition statement supplied by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index. |
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"Works on the immigrant experience": pages 227-232. |
| Contents |
About this volume / Maryse Jayasuriya -- On the immigrant experience / Maryse Jayasuriya. |
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Critical contexts. zThe hope for the bettery: immigrants in Jewish American literature / Ezra Cappell -- Who we are: south Asian women writing life and identity / Umme Al-wazedi -- Myth and migration in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Asha Jeffers -- Graphic anamnesis: redrawing the home country in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do and GB Tran’s Vietnamerica: a family’s journey / Cynthia A. Leenerts. |
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Critical readings. Emma Lazarus’s poetic representations of the immigrant experience / Brian Yothers -- Wing Sing and Edith Eaton: their great adventures (Some Travel Writings by Sui Sin Far) / Robert C. Evans -- Perpetual foreigners, settlers, and sojourners: an overview of a century of south Asian immigrant writing in North America / Nalini Iyer -- We are made to leave, we are made to return: writing movement in contemporary Arab American literature / Mejdulene B. Shomali -- zCreate dangerouslyy: immigration as radical hope in Edwidge Danticat’s Fiction and Creative Nonfiction / Marion Christina Rohrleitner -- Writing, freedom, and the immigrant experience: a reading of Ha Jin’s A Free Life / Te-hsing Shan -- Making a place: life narratives of undocumented youth / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- Reading about the migrant and immigrant experiences in Latina and Latino young adult literatures: identities and voices of youth and families / R. Joseph Rodríguez -- Aspiration and disillusionment: undocumented experiences in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Contemporary African immigration and the legacy of slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing / Brian Yothers. |
| Subject |
Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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American literature -- Minority authors.
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American literature -- Minority authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807213
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Emigration and immigration in literature. (OCoLC)fst00908732
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Immigrants' writings, American. (OCoLC)fst00967803
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Jayasuriya, Maryse, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781682176924 (hardcover) |
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1682176924 |
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