In Search of a Dream America: Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants

ISBN-13: 9783034324236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 254 str.

Irina V Rodimtseva

Opis

This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book are: Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi.

Spis treści

Introduction - «That Alluring Land»: Eastern European and Russian Visions of America - Mary Antin Takes Possession of America - Eva Hoffman in the Land of Yearning - Vasily Aksyonov and Edward Limonov in the Land of Freedom - Epilogue - Bibliography

O autorze

Irina V. Rodimtseva is an Assistant Professor of English at Alderson Broaddus University in Philippi, WV. She received her Master's Degree in English from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University in Russia and her doctoral degree from West Virginia University in the U.S. Her research interests are 20th-century American literature (in particular immigrant and prison literature) and place studies. Her articles have been published in Arizona Quarterly and the Nabokov Studies.