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.