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[First edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Critical insights
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Critical insights.
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| 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 -- "The Hope for the Better": 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 -- 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 -- "Create Dangerously": 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 -- Works on the Immigrant Experience. |
| Summary |
"This collection focuses 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. The essays in this volume draw upon a vast range of immigrant experiences, precisely because immigrant writing in the United States and beyond brings together people of various nationalities, cultures, languages, immigration statuses, and social and economic classes. These essays also consider a wide array of genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and even hybrid forms, like graphic novels. The book begins with a broad overview of the field of immigrant writing by Maryse Jayasuriya, including a substantial survey of immigrant writing that extends the works discussed in the individual essays. For readers who are studying the theme for the first time, four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts containing the theme. Essays include writings from Jewish Americans and South Asian immigrants and analyze and compare works by Junot Diaz, GB Tran, and Thi Bui. The immigrant experience can provide inspiration for nonimmigrant writers as well as immigrant writers. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches. The essays in this volume deal with works and authors across many national and generic boundaries, illustrating the richness of the literature of the immigrant experience in the United States today. That they also span three centuries, from Emma Lazarus, Abraham Cahan, and Sui Sin Far to the stunning array of narratives and poems being published today, suggests how urgent narrating the immigrant experience has been and continues to be in the literature of the United States. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes."--Publisher's description |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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American literature -- Minority authors |
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Emigration and immigration in literature |
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Immigrants' writings, American |
| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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| Added Author |
Jayasuriya, Maryse, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Immigrant experience. [First edition]. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018] 9781682176924 (OCoLC)1027654675 |
| ISBN |
9781682176931 (electronic book) |
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1682176932 (electronic book) |
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9781682176924 (hardcover) |
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1682176924 (hardcover) |
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