Immigrant Fictions

Author : Rebecca Walkowitz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299221331

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Immigrant Fictions by Rebecca Walkowitz Pdf

Immigrant Fictions is a groundbreaking collection that brings together studies of world literature, book history, narrative theory, and the contemporary novel to challenge methods of critical reading based on national models of literary culture. Contributors suggest that contemporary novels by immigrant writers need to be read across several geographies of production, circulation, and translation. Analyzing work by David Peace, George Lamming, Caryl Phillips, Iva Pekarkova, Yan Geling, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Anchee Min, and Monica Ali, these essays take up a range of critical topics, including the transnational book and the migrant writer, the comparative reception history of postcolonial fiction, transnational criticism and Asian-American literature in the U. S., mobility and feminism in translation, linguistic mediation and immigrating fictions, migration and the politics of narrative form.

Author : Sonia Weiner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004364011

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American Migrant Fictions by Sonia Weiner Pdf

American Migrant Fictions focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings.

Author : Janice Kulyk Keefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047571255

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The Green Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer Pdf

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813129346

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New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction by Gilbert H. Muller Pdf

Author : David Bezmozgis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443457804

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Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Award-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic” In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on the past in “How It Used to Be.” A grandfather’s Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in “Little Rooster.” In “Childhood,” Mark’s concern about his son’s phobias evokes a shameful incident from his own adolescence. In “Roman’s Song,” Roman’s desire to help a new immigrant brings him into contact with a sordid underworld. At his father’s request, Victor returns to Riga, the city of his birth, where his loyalties are tested by the man he might have been in “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave.” And, in the noir-inspired “The Russian Riviera,” Kostya leaves Russia to pursue a boxing career only to find himself working as a doorman in a garish nightclub in the Toronto suburbs. In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.

Author : Adi Alsaid,Varsha Bajaj,Maria E. Andreu,Sharon Morse,Misa Sugiura,Nafiza Azad,Maurene Goo,Sona Charaipotra,Yamile Saied Méndez,Zoraida Córdova,Alaya Dawn Johnson,Sara Farizan,Isabel Quintero,Justine Larbalestier,Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781488069383

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Come On In by Adi Alsaid,Varsha Bajaj,Maria E. Andreu,Sharon Morse,Misa Sugiura,Nafiza Azad,Maurene Goo,Sona Charaipotra,Yamile Saied Méndez,Zoraida Córdova,Alaya Dawn Johnson,Sara Farizan,Isabel Quintero,Justine Larbalestier,Lilliam Rivera Pdf

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home—and to find home. WELCOME From some of the most exciting bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors writing today…journey from Ecuador to New York City and Argentina to Utah…from Australia to Harlem and India to New Jersey…from Fiji, America, Mexico and more… Come On In. With characters who face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands…who camp with their extended families, dance at weddings, keep diaries, teach ESL…who give up their rooms for displaced family, decide their own answer to the question “where are you from?” and so much more… Come On In illuminates fifteen of the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, from authors who have been shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home—and to find home.

Author : David G. Cowart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501727054

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Trailing Clouds by David G. Cowart Pdf

"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Wendy Law-Yone (born in Burma), Mylène Dressler (born in the Netherlands), Lan Cao (born in Vietnam), and such Korean-born authors as Chang-rae Lee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Nora Okja Keller—writers who in recent years have come to this country and, in their work, contributed to its culture."—David CowartIn Trailing Clouds, David Cowart offers fresh insights into contemporary American literature by exploring novels and short stories published since 1970 by immigrant writers. Balancing historical and social context with close readings of selected works, Cowart explores the major themes raised in immigrant writing: the acquisition of language, the dual identity of the immigrant, the place of the homeland, and the nature of citizenship.Cowart suggests that the attention to first-generation writers (those whose parents immigrated) has not prepared us to read the fresher stories of those more recent arrivals whose immigrant experience has been more direct and unmediated. Highlighting the nuanced reflection in immigrant fiction of a nation that is ever more diverse and multicultural, Cowart argues that readers can learn much about the changes in the American way of life from writers who have come to this country, embraced its culture, and penned substantial literary work in English.

Author : Randy Boyagoda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135862701

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Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner by Randy Boyagoda Pdf

Read together, novels from a contemporary world writer (Salman Rushdie) and two modern American authors (Faulkner and Ellision) depict a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been conceived and imagined; these changes are revealed in the fiction of encounters between immigrants and natives.

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402247028

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The Immigrants by Howard Fast Pdf

The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga "A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does." -Los Angeles Times In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise and fall of a family of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself. The first of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is a fast-paced, emotional novel that captures the wide range of relationships among immigrant families during the tumultuous events that defined the early twentieth century in America. "A non-stop page-turner...moving, vivid...a splendid achievement!" -Erica Jong "Howard Fast is fiercely American. He is one of ours, one of our very best!" -Los Angeles Times "Warmth...Power...Tenderness...Excitement...Readers will find themselves anxiously awaiting the sequel." -Columbus Dispatch

Author : Jeanine Cummins
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250209788

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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeanine Cummins Pdf

"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia--trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--

Author : Dave Astor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Editor & publisher
ISBN : 9781105792861

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Comic (and Column) Confessional by Dave Astor Pdf

Author : Joseph Zagame
Publisher : Infinity Pub
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741437562

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The Immigrant by Joseph Zagame Pdf

Author : Sonia Weiner
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9004364005

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American Migrant Fictions by Sonia Weiner Pdf

American Migrant Fictions focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings.

Author : Beatriz Curry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475911734

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Natalie by Beatriz Curry Pdf

Portrayed by Natalie de la Cruz, this is the story of author Beatriz Curry as she struggles to carve a niche in a new and unexpectedly alien world called the United States. It is the story of tenacity in the face of adversity, of personal failures and triumphs. Her life in the US starts in1977 when she arrives in Miami with a dream of a better life, a little over a thousand dollars in her purse and four children in tow. From the moment she arrives and faces the immigration offi cer with the coldest and most hostile eyes she had ever seen, she realizes she is in for a long and turbulent ride. She becomes a waitress, a machinist, a hotel maid as she grapples with a new language, a new city and a new world. Exhausted after years of hard work and failures, she decides to return to her country of originif her luck didnt change. But it does. Over 30 years later, author Beatriz Curry gives us her poignant story as she remembers it. Some details have been added or omitted to fit the story. Personal names and some places have been changed.

Author : Debra Faszer-McMahon,Victoria L. Ketz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317184263

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African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts by Debra Faszer-McMahon,Victoria L. Ketz Pdf

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.