The immigrant experience in North American literature : carving out a niche /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Payant, Katherine B., Rose, Toby
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:	Contributions to the study of American literature. no. 4.
Subjects:	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.

Table of 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.