How we found America : reading gender through East-European immigrant narratives / Magdalena J. Zaborowska.

Author
Zaborowska, Magdalena J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Description
xiii, 359 pages ; 25 cm

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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?
    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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