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How we found America : reading gender through East-European immigrant narratives / Magdalena J. Zaborowska.
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Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Description
xiii, 359 pages ; 25 cm
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PS153.E37 Z33 1995
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Subject(s)
American literature
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East European American authors
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History and criticism
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American literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Women and literature
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United States
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History
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Emigration and immigration in literature
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East European Americans
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Intellectual life
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Authorship
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Sex differences
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Immigrants in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Gender roles
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Summary note
Discusses the contributions of Eastern European women writers to the immigrant experience. -- Back cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-345) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Other "Americas"
The "other Europe" revisited: from immigrant narrative to posttotalitarian discourse
The perils of woman's Americanization: Mary Antin's The promised land
Pride over tears: Elizabeth Stern's insolent Americanization
Beyond the happy endings: Anzia Yezierska rewrites the new world woman
In alien worlds: transcending the boundaries of exile in the works of Maria Kuncewicz
Eva Hoffman's observing consciousness: translating the culture of strangers
The untold story: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin as an immigrant narrative
Conclusion: Where do you emigrate to now?
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ISBN
0807822035 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780807822036 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0807845094 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780807845097 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
94033791
OCLC
31044907
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