... n g Pa i n : Im m i G R a n t Su F F e r i n g i n Li t e r a t u r e a n d Cu l t u r e . By Madelaine Hron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 300 p. Madelaine Hron’s study emphasizes the emotional aspect of immigrant experience, arguing that literature gives us a unique...

....” L'écriture décentrée: la langue de l'autre dans le roman contemporain . Ed. Michel Laronde. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996 . 55 -74. Gelblum, Arieh. “Chodesh yamim hayiti ole chadash: aliat teiman ve ba'ayat Africa” [Yemenite Immigration and the African Problem]. Ha-aretz 22 April 1949 . 2...

...Ania Loomba A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 212 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS THE QUEST FOR EPIC: FROM ARIOSTO...

... was considered essential for the welfare of both the individual and the commonwealth. At the backdrop of the lawsuit was the emergence of the public school system and also a surge in the Catholic immigrant population, which began to challenge the de facto Protestant establishment of many American communities...

... a reconceptualization of history, culture, and politics (including, and perhaps most especially, the democratic experiment of the United States). As an example, I turn to the circuits of transmission between Black and Arab communities as a way to think through the ways Arab American immigrant narratives and conceptions...

.... Based on a reading of the fiction of the Canadian-Caribbean author Austin Clarke, the essay offers a symbolic mapping of urban translocalities as organisms that expel the immigrant as waste. AMARYLL CHANADY The Trans-American Outcast and Figurations of Displacement...

...Margarita Levantovskaya This article examines how contemporary Russian-Jewish-American literature imagines home and belonging for diasporic subjects. It focuses on novels by immigrant Jewish writers born in the USSR, specifically Anya Ulinich, Gary Shteyngart, and Ellen Litman. The novels analyzed...

... of an era; Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1934), where the detritus of a Lower East Side childhood become symbolic totems of a violent coming-of-age; and S. Y. Agnon’s Just Yesterday (Hebrew, 1946), an epic novel of immigration, cultural renaissance, and insanity set in Jaffa and Jerusalem, wherein taxidermy...

... DOI 10.1215/00104124-2009-006 BOOK REVIEWS / 181 A FORGETFUL NATION: ON IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 212 p. In the opening pages of A Forgetful...

... University of Oregon DOI 10.1215/00104124-2009-006 BOOK REVIEWS / 181 A FORGETFUL NATION: ON IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke...

... DOI 10.1215/00104124-2009-006 BOOK REVIEWS / 181 A FORGETFUL NATION: ON IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 212 p. In the opening pages of A Forgetful...

... n g Pa i n : Im m i G R a n t Su F F e r i n g i n Li t e r a t u r e a n d Cu l t u r e . By Madelaine Hron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 300 p. Madelaine Hron’s study emphasizes the emotional aspect of immigrant experience, arguing that literature gives us a unique...

... n g Pa i n : Im m i G R a n t Su F F e r i n g i n Li t e r a t u r e a n d Cu l t u r e . By Madelaine Hron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 300 p. Madelaine Hron’s study emphasizes the emotional aspect of immigrant experience, arguing that literature gives us a unique...

... Buell 19 – 38 . Print . Berman Jacob . American Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary . New York : New York UP , 2012 . Print . Civantos Christina . Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity...

... by Australian immigration officers at the airport. Raihanaty’s choice to “ben[d] the rules in the game of skin” ( 102 ) is a humorous, if pyrrhic, act of resistance against institutionalized and casual racism in Australia. She and Tara know that although their passports are Australian, because...

... is parallel to that of the state. These gangs gained muscle, wealth, and prestige as unemployed youngsters and immigrants deported from the United States joined their ranks, with these last two factors the direct consequence of the United States reneging, after the election of George W. Bush in 2000...

... in. The poem voices the experience of immigrants to Britain like Nagra’s Punjabi Sikh parents—more specifically, clandestine or undocumented immigrants, an aspect of the poem (first published in 2004) that makes it resonate with the current surge in clandestine crossings of the Dover Strait. In its focus...

...” that links each novel’s treat- ment of Irish and Irish American ethnicity. For his part, Twain explicitly noted that he borrowed extensively from the vernacular spoken by nineteenth-century Irish immigrants, even remarking that Huck’s “mouth is a trifle more Irishy than necessary” (Letters  174...

... of this very private into varieties of complicity. The two sides folded together, unevenly positioned as they are—a fuzzy comfort zone and the strident public call of nativism. Twenty years ago I had argued that well-placed academic immigrants, self-anthropologizing, acquire a role for themselves...

..., Wharfmaster, Customs Department, Captains, Mates and Crews of Tugs, Signalmen, and Water Police” (also, one might add, an elaborate Immigration Restriction [IR] Department, not mentioned in the guidebook, since white tourists of the right class presumably would encounter them only briefly if at all) ( Ingram...