Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA) – serie
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Chinatown Family
Häftad, 2006
447 kr
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Lin Yutang (1895–1976), author of more than thirty-five books, was arguably the most distinguished Chinese American writer of the twentieth century. In Chinatown Family, he brings humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion as he tells the engrossing and heart-warming story of an …
Empire and the Literature of Sensation
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Av Jesse Alemán, Shelley Streeby
Häftad, 2007
597 kr
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Mid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the energy and excitement characteristic of the nation's era of expansion. It also reveals the intense anxiety and conflict of a country struggling with what it will mean, socially and culturally, to incorporate previously held Spanish …
Visions and Divisions
American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930
Av Timothy Prchal, Tony Trigilio
Häftad, 2008
597 kr
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For many years, America cherished its image as a Golden Door for the world’s oppressed. But during the Progressive Era, mounting racial hostility along with new national legislation that imposed strict restrictions on immigration began to show the nation in a different light. The literature of this …
American in the Making
The Life Story of an Immigrant
Av M. E. Ravage, Steven G. Kellman
Inbunden, 2009
1124 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new …
American in the Making
The Life Story of an Immigrant
Av M. E. Ravage, Steven G. Kellman
Häftad, 2009
413 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new …
Grand Gennaro
Av Garibaldi Lapolla, Steven Belluscio
Häftad, 2009
495 kr
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An illiterate Calabrian in southern Italy owes money to his church and mayor. He skips town for the bustling streets of New York. Meeting an old friend, a fellow immigrant, he thanks him for help getting settled, and then steals his money. With a new parcel of wealth, he materializes from a …
Comedy: American Style
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Av Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Jessie Fauset
Inbunden, 2009
1645 kr
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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, …
Comedy: American Style
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Av Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Jessie Fauset
Häftad, 2009
495 kr
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Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, …
Shadowed Dreams
Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Häftad, 2006
505 kr
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The first edition of Shadowed Dreams was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen …
Long Way from Home
Av Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett
Häftad, 2007
505 kr
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Claude McKay (1889–1948) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. A Jamaican-born author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, McKay has often been associated with the “New Negro” or Harlem Renaissance, a movement of African …
Zora Neale Hurston
Collected Plays
Av Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Lee Cole m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
505 kr
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Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore.Even …
Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear
A Japanese American Memoir
Av Kathleen Tamagawa, Greg Robinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
467 kr
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Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in …
