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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Immigrant Literature"”.
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The complexity of a hybrid life: Female immigrants in France and Germany in search of their own identity
Female Muslim immigrants in France and Germany are increasingly experiencing challenges integrating into Western lifestyle. They have to adjust to occidental communities in which they try to incorporate their own traditions and values. They experience feelings of simultaneous belonging and …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… My parallel readings of African American and immigrant novels show that the disciplinary boundaries which are often drawn between African American literature and white ethnic literatures can be imaginatively negotiated by examining the construction of space and place in black and white-ethnic …
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"A Stranger in a Strange Land": A Translation of “An Icelandic Driver,” a Short Story by J. M. Bjarnason, with Analysis and Introduction to the Author
… is remarkable within the context of Icelandic immigrant literature in North America at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries as it does not conform to the main shared narrative about this Icelandic migration: is not a story of Icelanders in a rural Icelandic "ethnic …
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Narrating Americanization: space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927
This dissertation addresses a component of U.S. immigrant writing that literary scholarship has generally neglected: the relationship between aesthetics and place. Drawing on theories of ethnicity, nation, and space, I argue that the particular features of an immigrant group and the region where it …
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Languages of Self: American Immigrant Writers and the New Global Literature
… This dissertation explores the ways in which immigrant writers have conceived of identity, grappling not only with the social conditions which give rise to individual and collective identities, but also how these projects are depicted in the literary form. It's clear that an emerging …