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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Peter Kvidera Duke University Press 2005 Peter Resonant Presence:
Kvidera Legal Narratives and Literary Space in the
Poetry of Early Chinese Immigrants
Etched into a barracks wall of San Francisco Bay’s
Angel Island Immigration Station...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Aviva F. Taubenfeld © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America . By Sarah E. Chinn. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 199 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $24.95. Immigration...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 416–417.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of the production of liberal subjectivity and its enactment (and
reproduction) in sentimental texts of American literature.
Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
416 American Literature
Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930.
Orm Øverland. Urbana: Univ...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 657–658.
Published: 01 September 2000
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amined, only James, for all his distaste for the idea of immigrants taking over
American English, is credited with a glimpse of a unified society that admits
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636 American Literature...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 459–461.
Published: 01 June 2012
...John Morán González Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative . By Delgadillo Theresa . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xiv, 275 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno . By Kanellos...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
... upon the analytics for articulating racial difference honed in US race and ethnic studies to help illuminate Williams’s literary efforts to formulate an early politics of comparative racialization. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Edlie Wong Comparative Racialization, Immigration Law...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Jodi Melamed Duke University Press 2007 The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor . By Grace Kyungwon Hong. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxiv, 190 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50. Incorporations: Race...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 547–570.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Swati Rana Rana's essay reads two pioneering works by Syrian immigrant writers, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid (1911) and Abraham Rihbany's A Far Journey (1914), that inaugurate Arab American fiction and autobiography, respectively. She shows how both texts proliferate myths of origin...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 431–433.
Published: 01 June 2017
...-American Literature advances this transnational framework in four thematic clusters. Fadda-Conrey first examines representations of distant memories of the Arab homelands as initially shared by first-generation immigrants and later recorded in literary forms by a long list of second- and third-generation...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Josephine Lee © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. By Amy Koritz. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. x, 200 pp. $40.00. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 . By Sabine Haenni...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Michael Robertson © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945 . By Gavin Jones. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 228 pp. $35.00. Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870–1930...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as the result of 1965 immigration policy and a reaction to the intensification of black civil rights and protest movements, the concluding sections of the essay suggest that Bulosan provides a glimpse of the emergence of a model minority discourse as it takes shape in the shadow of black pathologization...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 505–530.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Amy Clukey The last ten years have seen a reexamination of Margaret Mitchell’s depictions of Irish identity. While these readings tell us a great deal about how Mitchell depicts Irish immigration to the region, colonial history shows that the connections between Ireland and the American South go...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 803–829.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Kate McCullough McCullough's essay analyzes the impact of the figure of the refugee on both the story and the narrative structure of Diana Abu-Jaber's 1993 novel Arabian Jazz . What initially looks like a fairly predictable immigrant narrative rapidly engages a story of transnational movement...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... constituted by economically, socially, and culturally mobile, not to mention aesthetically pleasing, bodies. Both Jewish and American, these bodies serve as touchpoints for their own desiring gazes, positing a model of assimilative empathy for “native” and immigrant alike in which “looks” refer to both an act...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the mobility of African Americans, Native Americans, and Chinese immigrants. Post-Reconstruction practices such as convict lease and the enforcement of vagrancy laws help account for Huck and Jim's divergent experiences of mobility and captivity as they travel downriver in Twain's novel. Racially...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Barbara Hochman Abstract For marginalized readers in the United States, the public library has often been an icon of integration, assimilation, and self-making. At the New York Public Library (NYPL) of the 1920s, children’s librarians, mostly white and native born, assiduously drilled immigrant...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... Of the roughly 11 million unsanctioned immigrants in the United States (mostly hailing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean), an estimated 1.3 million are DACA-mented immigrant youth, the majority of whom are Latinx. While the border has long been a critical paradigm for Chicanx and Latinx...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 757–768.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879–1924 . By Cristina Stanciu . New Haven, CT : Yale Univ. Press . 2023 . x, 370 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; e-book, $45.00 . Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions . By David S. Roh...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
...’ or the ‘language of Shakespeare’—with literature itself.” In the essay-story “An Immigrant Among the Editors,” Anzia Yezierska ( 1923 : 57) critically ponders this predicament: “But how was I to reach these American-born higher-ups when they were so much above me?. . . . I wasn’t interested in grammar...
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