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

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.992 I33I    Check Shelf
Description xxvii, 190 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Contributions to the study of American literature, 1092-6356 ; no. 4
Contributions to the study of American literature, 1092-6356 ; no. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject 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.
Added Author Payant, Katherine B.
Rose, Toby.
ISBN 0313308918 alkaline paper
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