The Immigrant experience in North American literature: carving out a niche

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Preface by Toby Rose Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted by Katherine Payant Interdependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Women's Immigrant Autobiography by Wendy Zierler Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's BREAD GIVERS by Martin Japtok 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 by Raychel Haugrud Reiff JASMINE or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating between Cultural Arrest and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fiction by Gonul Pultar Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's LUCY by Jacqueline Doyle Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold by June Dwyer Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration by Qun Wang Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK by Katherine Payant Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes by Toby Rose Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's THE LINE OF THE SUN by Carmen Faymonville OBASAN and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies by Matthew Beedham Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's TYPICAL AMERICAN by Zhou Xiaojing Epilogue by Toby Rose Selected Bibliography Index

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