Research Catalog

Title

The immigrant experience / editor, Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas, El Paso.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Jayasuriya, Maryse

Description

xx, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• American literature > Minority authors
• Immigrants' writings, American

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
• "Works on the immigrant experience": pages 227-232.

Source of Description (note)

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Contents

• About this volume / Maryse Jayasuriya -- On the immigrant experience / Maryse Jayasuriya.
• Critical contexts. "The hope for the better": immigrants in Jewish American literature / Ezra Cappell -- Who we are: south Asian women writing life and identity / Umme Al-wazedi -- Myth and migration in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Asha Jeffers -- Graphic anamnesis: redrawing the home country in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do and GB Tran's Vietnamerica: a family's journey / Cynthia A. Leenerts.
• Critical readings. Emma Lazarus's poetic representations of the immigrant experience / Brian Yothers -- Wing Sing and Edith Eaton: their great adventures (Some Travel Writings by Sui Sin Far) / Robert C. Evans -- Perpetual foreigners, settlers, and sojourners: an overview of a century of south Asian immigrant writing in North America / Nalini Iyer -- We are made to leave, we are made to return: writing movement in contemporary Arab American literature / Mejdulene B. Shomali -- "Create dangerously": immigration as radical hope in Edwidge Danticat's Fiction and Creative Nonfiction / Marion Christina Rohrleitner -- Writing, freedom, and the immigrant experience: a reading of Ha Jin's A Free Life / Te-hsing Shan -- Making a place: life narratives of undocumented youth / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- Reading about the migrant and immigrant experiences in Latina and Latino young adult literatures: identities and voices of youth and families / R. Joseph Rodríguez -- Aspiration and disillusionment: undocumented experiences in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Contemporary African immigration and the legacy of slavery in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing / Brian Yothers.

Call Number

JFE 18-5980

ISBN

• 9781682176924
• 1682176924

OCLC

1027654675

Title

The immigrant experience / editor, Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas, El Paso.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.

"Works on the immigrant experience": pages 227-232.

Note

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Added Author

Jayasuriya, Maryse, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5980