Looking forward, looking back : images of Eastern European Jewish migration to America in contemporary American children's literature /

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How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Lookin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pohl, Jana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Studia imagologica ; 19.
Temas:
Jewish diaspora in literature.
Children's stories, American > History and criticism.
Diaspora juive dans la littérature.
Histoires pour enfants américaines > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Children's stories, American
Jewish diaspora in literature
Electronic resource.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The corpus
  • pt. 2. Theory : image studies
  • pt. 3. The country of origin : Russia
  • pt. 4. The target country : American
  • pt. 5. The American dream and its poetic functions in migration narratives for children
  • pt. 6. Adapting an immigrant autobiography : Mary Antin's The promised land (1912) and Rosemary Wells's Streets of gold (1999), illustrated by Dan Andreasen
  • pt. 7. Conclusion
  • pt. 8. References.

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