Copyright Acknowledgments

The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for use of the following material:

A similar version of chapter 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" originally appeared as "Al-
most Like a Fairy Tale: The Ecstasy and the Agony of Norwegian Immigrants' Lives as Seen in
Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rolvaag" in North Dakota Quarterly (Fall 1998). Reprinted by permis-
sion of Raychel Haugrud Reiff and North Dakota Quarterly.

A similar version of chapter 4, "Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating between
'Cultural Arrest' and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions" appeared in Journal of American Studies
of Turkey 2 (Fall 1995). Reprinted by permission of Gönül Pultar and Journal of American Studies of
Turkey.

Excerpts reprinted by permission of Riverhead Books, a division of The Putnam Publishing Group
from Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee. Copyright © 1995 by Chang-rae Lee.

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