Becoming Americans: four centuries of immigrant writing
Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States.
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2009
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Zusammenfassung: | Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States. |
Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 787-717) and index -- Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States. |
Beschreibung: | XXIV, 724 S. 22 cm |
ISBN: | 9781598530513 1598530518 |
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adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword, by
Pete Hamill xv
Introduction
xix
Richard Frethorne
Letter to His Mother and Father
1
Thomas
Tilläm
Upon the First Sight of New England
5
James Revel
The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon s
Sorrowful Account
7
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
from Some Memoirs of the Life of Job
. . .
Who Was a Shve about Two Years in Maryland
17
Gottlieb ffittelberger
from Journey to Pennsyhania
23
J. Hector St. John
de Crèvecoeur
from Letters from an American Farmer
34
PhillisWheatley
On being brought from Africa to America
39
I »H
viii
I CONTENTS
John James Audubon
from Myself 40
Lorenzo Da
Poate
from Memoirs
44
Fanny Kemble
iromjournals
54
JohnMcElgun
from Annie Rally
63
Hans
Mattson
from The Story of an Emigrant
70
Carl Schurz
from Reminiscences
80
Jacob Ms
from The MaMng of an American
89
Edith Maude Eaton
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
%
Abraham Cahan
from The Education of Abraham Cahan
109
Ludwig
Lewisohn
from Up Stream: An American Chronicle
121
Mary
Antin
from The Promised Land
129
O.E.Rflvaag
from The Third Life of Per Smevik
144
Ansia
Yesderska
from Children of Loneliness
156
Poetry by Chinese
Immigrants
163
Menotti
Pellegrino
from The Mysteries of New York
166
CONTENTS I
ix
Ludovico
Caminita
from On the Island of Tears: Mis Island
170
Henry Roth
bom Call It Sleep
178
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
In the Golden Land
186
Ernesto Galarza
from Barrio Boy
188
Claude McKay
The Tropics in New York
205
America
206
Louis
Adamie
from Laughing in the Jungle
207
Charles Chaplin
from Charlie Chaplin s Own Story
218
Felipe Alfau
from
Chromos
223
Bernardo Vega
írom
Memoirs
238
Louis Chu
from Eat a Bowl of Tea
254
Carlos Bulosan
from America Is in the Heart
264
Isaac
Bas
hevis Singer
A Wedding in Brownsville
276
MarjoriePerloff
from The Vienna Paradox
290
W.H.Anden
Say this city has ten million souls
302
χ Ι
CONTENTS
CarlDjerassì
from
ТЫ РШ,
Pygmy Chimps and Degas Horse
304
Laura Fermi
from Atoms in tL· Family
313
Christopher Isherwood
from Diaries
326
Thomas Mann
from Letter to Walter
von
Molo
336
Vladimir Nabokov
from
Вии
340
Julia de Burgos
Farewell in Welfare Island
348
Ariel Dorfman
Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language
350
John
Lukacs
from Confessions of an Original Sinner
353
Joseph Pell
from Taking Risks
360
Denise
Levertov
A Map of the Western Part of the County
of Essex in England
367
Frank McCourt
from
Tis
369
Edward Said
from Out of Place
378
Gregory DjaniMan
Immigrant Picnic
394
Thorn Gunn
from My Life Up to Now
397
CONTENTS
( xi
Charles Simic
from A My in the Soup
402
Judith Ortiz Gofer
Arrival
412
Marie
Arana
from American
Chica
414
Marilyn Chin
How I Got That Name
422
Julia Alvarez
Our Papers
426
Czesław Miłosz
from
Mäosz s
ABC s
432
Luc
Sante
from Cargo
436
LucetteLagnado
from The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
445
Jessica
Hagedorn
from The Gangster of Love
456
Eva Hoffman
from Lost in Translation
464
Li-Young Lee
Self-Help for Fellow Refugees
469
Jamaica Kincaid
bom Lucy
472
Cnang-raeLee
from Native Speaker
479
Shirley
Geok-ün Lim
from Immigrant Mother
485
xii
I CONTENTS
OlgaBroumas
Sometimes, as a child
493
Tahira
Naqvi
Dying in a Strange Country
495
JhumpaLahiri
The Third and Final Continent
510
Luis
H.Francia
Tio
525
Joseph
Brodsky
from The Condition We Call Exile
530
Łan
Gao
from Monkey Bridge
534
JunotDiaz
from
Dróton
543
Josip
Novakovich
Grandmother s Tongue
557
GaryShteyngart
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye
570
GregDelanty
We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No
583
Reinaldo
Arenas
from Before Night
Falk
586
DinawMengestu
from The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
597
EdwidgeDanticat
from Brother, I m Dying
607
HajidNaflcy
Night
627
CONTENTS I
xiii
Пап
Stavans
from Autobiographical Essay
629
Norman Manea
Barney Greengrass
635
Anita Desai
Various Lives
643
AnyaUlinich
The Nurse and the Novelist
649
Aleksandar
Hemon
from Nowhere Man
657
LaraVapnyar
Mistress
675
Richard Rodriguez
from Hunger of Memory
684
Chronology
697
Sources and Acknowledgments
707
Index
718
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