Immigrant Experience in North American Literature

KATHERINE B. PAYANT is Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies Program and the Liberal Studies Program at Northern Michigan University. Her previous publications include Becoming and Bonding: Contemporary Feminism and Popular Fiction by American Women Writers (Greenwood, 1993).TOBY ROSE is Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, where she specializes in Caribbean Literature and Postcolonial Theory and Literature.

• 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