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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Abraham Cahan is perhaps more notable for his leadership in Yiddish-speaking community of the Lower East Side than he is for any of his English prose. For more than forty years he was the editor of the popular Yiddish...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Israel Zangwill was a Jew in England. As such, he attempted, in great measure successfully, to integrate in his life and works the best of both civilizations, projecting them later to his people and all mankind. This he...
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From: The New York Review of Books[(review date 10 October 1991) In the following review, Kazin discusses Roth's Call It Sleep and asserts that it is a story of David's inner growth.] Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 112. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Charles Follen AdamsLeedle Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems (poetry) 1878 Lucia True AmesMemoirs of a Millionaire (novel) 1889 Dion BoucicaultThe Poor of New York (play) 1857 John BroughamThe...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Miguel Méndez M. is a self-taught construction worker with a sixth-grade education who has become a prolific writer, a deft manipulator of language, and a chronicler of a socioeconomic class of which he is a member and...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The dual character of Willa Cather's My Ántonia is suggested by its title, for it is at once the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian emigre to the state of Nebraska in the 1880s, and the story of the narrator...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love made Oscar Hijuelos an instant celebrity. The fame of the author and his novel increased even more when the text was adapted for a feature film....
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Mario Puzo is a novelist, screenwriter, and literary persona who is also, not incidentally, the most influential Italian-American writer of his generation and, arguably, of all time. Born in 1920 and raised in the Hell's...
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From: Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative[(essay date 1996) In the following excerpt, Gardaphe examines elements of myth and cultural assimilation in The Godfather, contending that it "has done more to create a national consciousness of the Italian American...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Burns is writing specialist at Emmanuel College whose areas of special studies include film studies and nineteenth-century British literature, as well as gay and lesbian studies. In the following essay, she discusses...
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From:Feminist WritersMaxine Hong Kingston, American novelist and nonfiction writer, was born of Chinese immigrant parents on 27 October 1940. She was the oldest daughter of Tom and Ying Lan Chew Hong, who operated a laundry in the Chinatown...
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From: Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Ferraro examines the "business of family" in The Godfather and the godfather figure as a cultural icon.] In his 1969 blockbuster The Godfather, Mario Puzo presented an image...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date Winter 1992) In the following essay, Sant-Wade and Radell discuss the ways in which immigrant characters adapt to American culture in Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories.] The female protagonist in...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Dykema-VanderArk, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, looks at how the stories of Jim Burden and Ántonia intertwine throughout Cather's novel to address themes of childhood,...
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From: MELUS[(essay date Winter 1982) In the following excerpt, Bedrosian examines Saroyan's optimism and his depiction of ethnicity in The Assyrian, Rock Wagram, and The Laughing Matter.] What we discover in the work of this most...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersSince publishing his first novel, Our House in the Last World, in 1983, Oscar Hijuelos has become an increasingly popular figure in contemporary American literature. Our House tells the story of the Santinio family...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Finley Peter Dunne is best known for having created Mr. Martin Dooley, an aging Irish saloonkeeper from Chicago, who began appearing in a weekly column in the Chicago Evening Post in October 1893. Dunne's own parents had...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 83. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Short FictionEast, West 1994Other Major WorksGrimus (novel) 1975Midnight's Children (novel) 1981Shame (novel) 1983The Satanic Verses (novel) 1988Haroun and the Sea of Stories (juvenilia)...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)There are no easy ways to categorize Bharati Mukherjee. Her writing and her life span East and West, past and present, tradition and change, hope and despair. Her remarkable skill in exploring through fiction her own...
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From: Immigrant-Survivors: Post-Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American FictionNo contemporary American writer has written about immigrants and survivors more frequently or more imaginatively than has Bernard Malamud. His fictional world is peopled with Diasporans of all kinds but, unlike [Abraham...