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The immigrant experience /

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Provides a collection of critical essays on the variety of immigrant experiences that have been depicted in literary works and the techniques that immigrant writers have used in fiction and non-fiction.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jayasuriya, Maryse (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
American literature > Minority authors.
Immigrants > History and criticism.
Immigration and emigration in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • On the Immigrant Experience
  • Critical Contexts
  • "The Hope for the Better": Immigrants in Jewish American Literature
  • Who We Are: South Asian Women Writing Life and Identity
  • Myth and Migration in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Graphic Anamnesis: Redrawing the Home Country in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do and GB Tran's Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
  • Critical Readings
  • Emma Lazarus's Poetic Representations of the Immigrant Experience
  • Wing Sing and Edith Eaton: Their Great Adventures (Some Travel Writings by Sui Sin Far)
  • Perpetual Foreigners, Settlers, and Sojourners: An Overview of a Century of South Asian Immigrant Writing in North America
  • We Are Made to Leave, We Are Made to Return: Writing Movement in Contemporary Arab American Literature
  • "Create Dangerously": Immigration as Radical Hope in Edwidge Danticat's Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
  • Writing, Freedom, and the Immigrant Experience: A Reading of Ha Jin's A Free Life
  • Making a Place: Life Narratives of Undocumented Youth
  • Reading about the Migrant and Immigrant Experiences in Latina and Latino Young Adult Literatures: Identities and Voices of Youth and Families
  • Aspiration and Disillusionment: Undocumented Experiences in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers
  • Contemporary African Immigration and the Legacy of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
  • Resources
  • Works on the Immigrant Experience
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.