How We Found America: Reading Gender Through East-European Immigrant NarrativesUntil now, the East European canon in American literature has been dominated by male dissident figures such as Brodsky, Milosz, and Kundera. Magdalena Zaborowska challenges that canon by demonstrating the contributions of lesser-known immigrant and expatr |
Contents
Other Americas | 1 |
FROM IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE TO POSTTOTALITARIAN DISCOURSE | 11 |
MARY ANTINS THE PROMISED LAND | 39 |
ELIZABETH STERNS INSOLENT AMERICANIZATION | 77 |
Beyond the Happy Endings ANZIA YEZIERSKA REWRITES THE NEW WORLD WOMAN | 113 |
In Alien Worlds TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF EXILE IN THE WORKS OF MARIA KUNCEWICZ | 165 |
Eva Hoffmans Observing Consciousness TRANSLATING THE CULTURE OF STRANGERS | 223 |
The Untold Story VLADIMIR NABOKOV S PNIN AS AN IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE | 261 |
Where Do You Emigrate to Now | 279 |
NOTES | 297 |
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