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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Amy Tan is notable for her delineation of the complicated relationships between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. In her first two novels, The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife, Tan...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club, is carefully structured around the stories of four pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The first and the last segments tell the mother's stories...
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From:Journal of the Southwest (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs the proportion of children involved in migrant flows of Mexicans headed north to the United States and the number of youngsters left behind by migrant parents have increased during the 1990s and the start of the...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 34, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedTHE UNITED STATES IS A BEACON of hope for many who seek refuge from persecution in their home countries. As the plaque on the Statue of Liberty reads, "Give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses, yearning to...
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEste articulo ofrece un estudio comparado de dos relatos transcanadienses de autoria feminista: "A Habit of Waste" (2001) de Nalo Hopkinson, y "We are not in Pakistan" (2007) de Shauna Singh Baldwin. Ambos relatos estan...
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From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 39) Peer-ReviewedI would like to share a message with the world: We are all the same even though we have different beliefs and customs. If we respect each other, we will achieve what we have been looking for since the beginning of...
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From:Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent decades, Argentine literature has demonstrated increasing interest not in Spanish immigrants or exiles but rather in their children, prompting a reconsideration of critical approaches to exile to account for...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 328, Issue 9756)A black head teacher told me a story of his early days at a failing inner-city school. The job was a thankless one and everybody was waiting anxiously for the arrival of the new 'super-head' (the school had gone through...