Immigrant Experience in North American Literature

Carving Out a Niche

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

AvKatherine Payant,Toby Rose,Katherine B. Payant,Toby Rose

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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. One essay highlights controversies among recent writers and critics concerning how their cultures should be portrayed, and the introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to North American immigrant literature.The expert contributors expose the reader to a variety of immigrant experiences in the literature of past and present, experiences in which the characters attempt to reconcile their ancestral heritage with that of their adopted land. Variations of three basic stances can be found in these works: the essentialist, rejecting the values of the dominant culture and resisting assimilation; the assimilationist, embracing the attitudes and behaviors of the new culture; and the hybridist, incorporating the old and new. The book additionally explores such topics as race, class, and gender, as well as the intergenerational conflict found in much immigrant literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-05-30
Mått157 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt515 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313308918

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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