The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted xiii
• Notes xxvi
• Works Cited xxvi
• 1: In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography 1
• Notes 14
• Works Cited 14
• 2: Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers 17
• Works Cited 29
• 3: 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 31
• Works Consulted 43
• 4: Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating Between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions 45
• Notes 56

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted xiii
• Notes xxvi
• Works Cited xxvi
• 1: In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography 1
• Notes 14
• Works Cited 14
• 2: Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers 17
• Works Cited 29
• 3: 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 31
• Works Consulted 43
• 4: Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating Between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions 45
• Notes 56
• Works Cited 56
• 5: Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy 59
• Notes 69
• Works Cited 70
• 6: Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold 73
• Works Cited 82
• 7: Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration 83
• Works Cited 93
• 8: Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek 95
• 9: Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes 109
• Primary Sources 120
• 10: Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the Sun 123
• Notes 136
• Works Consulted 136
• 110: Basan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies 139
• Works Cited 149
• 12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American 151
• 12: Becoming Americans 162
• Works Consulted 162
• Works Consulted 165
• Works Consulted 176
• Works Cited 178
• Selected Bibliography 179
• Index 183
• About the Contributors 189