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From: American Book Review[(review date 1982) In the following review of Baca's first poetic collection, Arias surveys the "gifted" poet's autobiographical journeys of discovery, his essay-like observational pieces, and scattered protest verses.]...
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From: Northwest Review[In the following excerpt, Addiego reviews Immigrants in Our Own Land, praising Baca's style and comparing him favorably to Walt Whitman.] [Jimmy Santiago Baca's] Immigrants in Our Own Land is a howl, a growling wail,...
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From: Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide[In the following favorable review of Immigrants in Our Own Land, Taylor comments on the lyricism of Baca's poetry, calling it “astonishingly beautiful.”] Immigrants in Our Own Land is a very disturbing book of poems...
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From: The American Book Review[Chicano journalist and author Arias is best known for his 1975 novel The Road to Tamazunchale, a work of “magic realism” in the style of Gabriel García Márquez that was nominated for the National Book Award. In this...
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From:Journal of European Studies (Vol. 28, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the tactic used by French television films to portray illegal immigrants was the use of associations. Television images were made connecting immigrants to other concepts easily identified with illegality such as...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 38, Issue 1)You have been sent for and now you must memorize a name. A new name. A borrowed name. Nine thousand feet above sea level, the options are laid out before you: Get the name right and you see your parents again; get the...
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From:Letras Femeninas (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEn este ensayo Oswaldo Estrada analiza la mirada crítica de Cristina Rivera Garza con respecto a la frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos. Tomando en cuenta varios de sus ensayos, incluidos en las colecciones...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date Spring 1991) Below, Gorjup favorably assesses On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows. He notes that Bissoondath expands the concept of "immigrant" to include the "internal immigrant," defined as the individual...
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From: Norwegian-American Studies and Records[(essay date 1956) In the following essay, Glasrud argues that his reputation notwithstanding, Boyesen was largely ignorant of the Norwegian immigrant's experience in America; rather, his significance was as a liaison...
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From: Studies in Short FictionThe female protagonist in one of Bharati Mukherjee's prize-winning short stories, from the collection titled The Middleman and Other Stories, is shocked when her landlord lover refers to the two of them as "two wounded...
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From: MELUS[(interview date autumn-winter 1987) In the following interview, di Donato discusses with Huene-Greenberg his major works and his influences.] Pietro Di Donato was twelve years old when his Italian immigrant father was...
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From: French Review[(essay date October 1994) In the following essay, Mehta explores how Ben Jelloun relates the immigrant experience through the eyes of his female protagonist in Les Yeux baissés.] Immigration and its psycho social...
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From: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review[(essay date 1952) In the following essay, Wittke classifies the representation of immigrants in American theatre in the last half of the nineteenth century, including Irish, German, Italian, and Jewish Americans.] The...
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From: Twisted From the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Schierenbeck analyzes Norris's use of the "clinical gaze" in McTeague, arguing that the novel "highlights the privileged position of the naturalist author" and depicts the...
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From: The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Critical Symposium[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Chandra rejects Mukherjee's appraisal of The Middleman and Other Stories as being tales about the "transformation" of immigrants and United States citizens as the two cultures...
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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 Short FictionAustin C. Clarke, who was born in Barbados and emigrated to Canada in 1955, is unquestionably the most important black Canadian writer. He has written numerous novels and stories about a community that is much larger and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Howard Fast has written in virtually every genre—novels, plays, poems, filmscripts, critical essays and short stories—and in a number of subgenres of fiction, including science fiction, social satire, historical and...
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From: American Literature[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Gleason examines the influence of the influx of Irish immigrants on Thoreau's writing. Gleason finds that Thoreau's anxiety about immigrants and how they might change the...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date spring 2002) In the essay below, Durso considers the Irish experience in America as portrayed in The Other Side, focusing on the transformation process whereby Irish people evolved from being regarded as...