... 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...

...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...

....” 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...

.... 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. University of Oregon 2009 Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... of extractivism—specifically of mining. In doing so, the novels materialize the land’s colonial history and lay out prophecies for the end of our present world. Señales ’s protagonist becomes part of an immigrant community that is “nomás de paso,” inhabiting what Gloria Anzaldúa describes as nepantla...

... 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...

... due to her skin color and religion; these racist incidents inform her decision in the latter episodes, where Raihanaty and her cousin Tara (w ho both speak English fluently) pretend to be inarticulate Indonesians when questioned by Australian immigration officers at the airport. Raihanaty’s choice...

... to be ( 257 ). The present essay seeks to address a facet of identity largely overlooked from a North Atlantic perspective: the tensions surrounding acculturation for immigrant artists to Latin America, especially in cases where identification with aspects of African heritage entails an apparent contradiction...

... 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...

... The poem further suggests the relevance of the cliffs’ chalk geology to its vision of British identity when it describes the immigrants “scramming on mulch” (line 9) as they make their way inland past the cliffs. While the reference to “mulch” seems random, the poem tellingly connects it to the cliffs...

...” 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...