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090    PS508.I45 B43 2009 
245 00 Becoming Americans :|bfour centuries of immigrant writing 
       /|cedited by Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Pete Hamill. 
246 30 Four centuries of immigrant writing 
264  1 New York, NY :|bLibrary of America :|bDistributed to the 
       trade by Penguin Group,|c[2009] 
264  4 |c©2009 
300    xxiv, 724 pages ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Library of America 
500    "A special publication of the Library of America." 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-717) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tForeword /|rPete Hamill --|tIntroduction /|rIlan Stavens
       --|tLetter to His Mother and Father /|rRichard Frethorne -
       -|t"Upon the First Sight of New England" /|rThomas Tillam 
       --|t"The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful 
       Account" /|rJames Revel --|gfrom|tSome Memoirs of the Life
       of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland /
       |rAyuba Suleiman Diallo --|gfrom|tJourney to Pennsylvania 
       /|rGottlieb Mittelberger --|gfrom|tLetters from an 
       American Farmer /|rJ. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur --  --
       from "On being brought from Africa to America" /|rPhillis 
       Wheatley --|gfrom|t"Myself" /|rJohn James Audubon --|gfrom
       |tMemoirs /|rLorenzo Da Ponte --|gfrom|tJournals /|rFanny 
       Kemble --|gfrom|tAnnie Reilly /|rJohn McElgun --|gfrom
       |tStory of an Emigrant /|rHans Mattson --|gfrom
       |tReminiscences /|rCarl Schurz --|gfrom|tMaking of an 
       American /|rJacob Riis -- "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" /|rEdith
       Maude Eaton --|gfrom|tEducation of Abraham Cahan /
       |rAbraham Cahan --|gfrom|tUp Stream: An American Chronicle
       /|rLudwig Lewisohn --|gfrom|tPromised Land /|rMary Antin -
       -|gfrom|tThird Life of Per Smevik /|rO. E. Rølvaag --
       |gfrom|t"Children of Loneliness" /|rAnzia Yezierska --
       |tPoetry by Chinese Immigrants --|gfrom|tMysteries of New 
       York /|rMenotti Pellegrino --|gfrom|tOn the Island of 
       Tears: Ellis Island /|rLudovico Caminita --|gfrom|tCall It
       Sleep /|rHenry Roth --|t"In the Golden Land" /|rMoyshe-
       Leyb Halpern --|gfrom|tBarrio Boy /|rErnesto Galarza --
       |t"The Tropics in New York" /|rClaude McKay --|t"America" 
       /|rClaude McKay --|gfrom|tLaughing in the Jungle /|rLouis 
       Adamic --|gfrom|tCharlie Chaplin's Own Story /|rCharles 
       Chaplin --|gfrom|tChromos /|rFelipe Alfau --|gfrom
       |tMemoirs /|rBernardo Vega --|gfrom|tEat a Bowl of Tea /
       |rLouis Chu --|gfrom|tAmerica Is in the Heart /|rCarlos 
       Bulosan --|t"A Wedding in Brownsville" /|rIsaac Bashevis 
       Singer --|gfrom|tVienna Paradox /|rMarjorie Perloff --
       |t"Say this city has ten million souls" /|rW. H. Auden --
       |gfrom|tPill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse /|rCarl 
       Djerassi --|gfrom|tAtoms in the Family /|rLaura Fermi --
       |gfrom|tDiaries /|rChristopher Isherwood --|gfrom|tLetter 
       to Walter von Molo /|rThomas Mann -- 
505 00 |gfrom|tPnin /|rVladimir Nabokov --|t"Farewell in Welfare 
       Island" /|rJulia de Burgos --|t"Breaking Down the Glass 
       Walls of Language" /|rAriel Dorfman --|gfrom|tConfessions 
       of an Original Sinner /|rJohn Lukacs --|gfrom|tTaking 
       Risks /|rJoseph Pell --|t"A Map of the Western Part of the
       County of Essex in England" /|rDenise Levertov --|gfrom
       |t'Tis /|rFrank McCourt --|gfrom|tOut of Place /|rEdward 
       Said --|t"Immigrant Picnic" /|rGregory Djanikian --|gfrom
       |t"My Life Up to Now" /|rThom Gunn --|gfrom|tA Fly in the 
       Soup /|rCharles Simic --|t"Arrival" /|rJudith Ortiz Cofer 
       --|gfrom|tAmerican Chica /|rMarie Arana --|t"How I Got 
       That Name" /|rMarilyn Chin --|t"Our Papers" /|rJulia 
       Alvarez --|gfrom|tMilosz's ABC's /|rCzeslaw Milosz --
       |gfrom|t"Cargo" /|rLuc Sante --|gfrom|tMan in the White 
       Sharkskin Suit /|rLucette Lagnado --|gfrom|tGangster of 
       Love /|rJessica Hagedorn --|gfrom|tLost in Translation /
       |rEva Hoffman --|t"Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" /|rLi-
       Young Lee --|gfrom|tLucy /|rJamaica Kincaid --|gfrom
       |tNative Speaker /|rChang-rae Lee --|gfrom|t"Immigrant 
       Mother" /|rShirley Geok-lin Lim --|t"Sometimes, as a 
       child" /|rOlga Broumas --|t"Dying in a Strange Country" /
       |rTahira Naqvi --|t"The Third and Final Continent" /
       |rJhumpa Lahiri --|t"Tío" /|rLuis H. Francia --|gfrom
       |t"The Condition We Call Exile" /|rJoseph Brodsky --|gfrom
       |tMonkey Bridge /|rLan Cao --|gfrom|tDrown /|rJunot Díaz -
       -|t"Grandmother's Tongue" /|rJosip Novakovich --|t"The 
       Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" /|rGary 
       Shteyngart --|t"We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, 
       No" /|rGreg Delanty --|gfrom|tBefore Night Falls /
       |rReinaldo Arenas --|gfrom|tBeautiful Things That Heaven 
       Bears /|rDinaw Mengestu --|gfrom|tBrother, I'm Dying /
       |rEdwidge Danticat --|t"Night" /|rMajid Naficy --|gfrom
       |t"Autobiographical Essay" /|rIlan Stavans --|t"Barney 
       Greengrass" /|rNorman Manea --|t"Various Lives" /|rAnita 
       Desai --|t"The Nurse and the Novelist" /|rAnya Ulinich --
       |gfrom|tNowhere Man /|rAleksandar Hemon --|t"Mistress" /
       |rLara Vapnyar --|gfrom|tHunger of Memory /|rRichard 
       Rodriguez 
520    Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume
       gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from
       45 countries that illustrate the changing views of 
       immigrants in the United States. 
650  0 Immigrants' writings, American.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh88003796 
650  0 Immigrants' writings, American|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh88003796|xHistory and criticism.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187 
650  0 Emigration and immigration|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
       /subjects/sh85042782|vLiterary collections.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001634 
650  0 Immigrants|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85064517|vLiterary collections.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99001634 
650  7 Immigrants' writings, American.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/967803 
650  7 Emigration and immigration.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/908690 
650  7 Immigrants.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/967712 
655  7 Literary collections.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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655  7 Literature.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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655  7 Literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1921716 
700 1  Stavans, Ilan.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
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