Becoming Americans : immigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today /
Becoming Americans : immigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today /
Immigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today
edited by Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Pete Hamill
- First paperback edition
- xxiv, 724 pages ; 22 cm
- Library of America .
- Library of America. .
"A special publication of the Library of America." Originally published in hardcover in 2009 as: Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing
Includes bibliographical references (p. 707-717) and index
Foreword / Introduction / Letter to His Mother and Father / "Upon the First Sight of New England" / "The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" / Some Memoirs of the Life of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland / Journey to Pennsylvania / Letters from an American Farmer / "Myself" / Memoirs / Journals / Annie Reilly / The Story of an Emigrant / Reminiscences / The Making of an American / The Education of Abraham Cahan / Up Stream: An American Chronicle / The Promised Land / The Third Life of Per Smevik / "Children of Loneliness" / Poetry by Chinese Immigrants -- The Mysteries of New York / On the Island of Tears: Ellis Island / Call It Sleep / "In the Golden Land" / Barrio Boy / "The Tropics in New York" / "America" / Laughing in the Jungle / Charlie Chaplin's Own Story / Chromos / Memoirs / Eat a Bowl of Tea / America Is in the Heart / "A Wedding in Brownsville" / The Vienna Paradox / "Say this city has ten million souls" / The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse / Atoms in the Family / Diaries / Letter to Walter von Molo / Pete Hamill -- Ilan Stavens -- Richard Frethorne -- Thomas Tillam -- James Revel -- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo -- Gottlieb Mittelberger -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- -- from "On being brought from Africa to America" / Phillis Wheatley -- John James Audubon -- Lorenzo Da Ponte -- Fanny Kemble -- John McElgun -- Hans Mattson -- Carl Schurz -- Jacob Riis -- "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" / Edith Maude Eaton -- Abraham Cahan -- Ludwig Lewisohn -- Mary Antin -- O.E. Rølvaag -- Anzia Yezierska -- Menotti Pellegrino -- Ludovico Caminita -- Henry Roth -- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern -- Ernesto Galarza -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Louis Adamic -- Charles Chaplin -- Felipe Alfau -- Bernardo Vega -- Louis Chu -- Carlos Bulosan -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Marjorie Perloff -- W.H. Auden -- Carl Djerassi -- Laura Fermi -- Christopher Isherwood -- Thomas Mann from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from Pnin / "Farewell in Welfare Island" / "Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language" / Confessions of an Original Sinner / Taking Risks / "A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England" / 'Tis / Out of Place / "Immigrant Picnic" / "My Life Up to Now" / A Fly in the Soup / "Arrival" / American Chica / "How I Got That Name" / "Our Papers" / Milosz's ABC's / "Cargo" / The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit / The Gangster of Love / Lost in Translation / "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" / Lucy / Native Speaker / "Immigrant Mother" / "Sometimes, as a child" / "Dying in a Strange Country" / "The Third and Final Continent" / "Tío" / "The Condition We Call Exile" / Monkey Bridge / Drown / "Grandmother's Tongue" / "The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" / "We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No" / Before Night Falls / The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Brother, I'm Dying / "Night" / "Autobiographical Essay" / "Barney Greengrass" / "Various Lives" / "The Nurse and the Novelist" / Nowhere Man / "Mistress" / Hunger of Memory / Vladimir Nabokov -- Julia de Burgos -- Ariel Dorfman -- John Lukacs -- Joseph Pell -- Denise Levertov -- Frank McCourt -- Edward Said -- Gregory Djanikian -- Thom Gunn -- Charles Simic -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Marie Arana -- Marilyn Chin -- Julia Alvarez -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Luc Sante -- Lucette Lagnado -- Jessica Hagedorn -- Eva Hoffman -- Li-Young Lee -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Chang-rae Lee -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Olga Broumas -- Tahira Naqvi -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Luis H. Francia -- Joseph Brodsky -- Lan Cao -- Junot Díaz -- Josip Novakovich -- Gary Shteyngart -- Greg Delanty -- Reinaldo Arenas -- Dinaw Mengestu -- Edwidge Danticat -- Majid Naficy -- Ilan Stavans -- Norman Manea -- Anita Desai -- Anya Ulinich -- Aleksandar Hemon -- Lara Vapnyar -- Richard Rodriguez from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from
Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States
9781598532906 (pbk.) 1598532901 (pbk.)
Immigrants' writings, American.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism
Emigration and immigration--Literary collections
Immigrants--Literary collections
"A special publication of the Library of America." Originally published in hardcover in 2009 as: Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing
Includes bibliographical references (p. 707-717) and index
Foreword / Introduction / Letter to His Mother and Father / "Upon the First Sight of New England" / "The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" / Some Memoirs of the Life of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland / Journey to Pennsylvania / Letters from an American Farmer / "Myself" / Memoirs / Journals / Annie Reilly / The Story of an Emigrant / Reminiscences / The Making of an American / The Education of Abraham Cahan / Up Stream: An American Chronicle / The Promised Land / The Third Life of Per Smevik / "Children of Loneliness" / Poetry by Chinese Immigrants -- The Mysteries of New York / On the Island of Tears: Ellis Island / Call It Sleep / "In the Golden Land" / Barrio Boy / "The Tropics in New York" / "America" / Laughing in the Jungle / Charlie Chaplin's Own Story / Chromos / Memoirs / Eat a Bowl of Tea / America Is in the Heart / "A Wedding in Brownsville" / The Vienna Paradox / "Say this city has ten million souls" / The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse / Atoms in the Family / Diaries / Letter to Walter von Molo / Pete Hamill -- Ilan Stavens -- Richard Frethorne -- Thomas Tillam -- James Revel -- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo -- Gottlieb Mittelberger -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- -- from "On being brought from Africa to America" / Phillis Wheatley -- John James Audubon -- Lorenzo Da Ponte -- Fanny Kemble -- John McElgun -- Hans Mattson -- Carl Schurz -- Jacob Riis -- "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" / Edith Maude Eaton -- Abraham Cahan -- Ludwig Lewisohn -- Mary Antin -- O.E. Rølvaag -- Anzia Yezierska -- Menotti Pellegrino -- Ludovico Caminita -- Henry Roth -- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern -- Ernesto Galarza -- Claude McKay -- Claude McKay -- Louis Adamic -- Charles Chaplin -- Felipe Alfau -- Bernardo Vega -- Louis Chu -- Carlos Bulosan -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Marjorie Perloff -- W.H. Auden -- Carl Djerassi -- Laura Fermi -- Christopher Isherwood -- Thomas Mann from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from Pnin / "Farewell in Welfare Island" / "Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language" / Confessions of an Original Sinner / Taking Risks / "A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England" / 'Tis / Out of Place / "Immigrant Picnic" / "My Life Up to Now" / A Fly in the Soup / "Arrival" / American Chica / "How I Got That Name" / "Our Papers" / Milosz's ABC's / "Cargo" / The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit / The Gangster of Love / Lost in Translation / "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" / Lucy / Native Speaker / "Immigrant Mother" / "Sometimes, as a child" / "Dying in a Strange Country" / "The Third and Final Continent" / "Tío" / "The Condition We Call Exile" / Monkey Bridge / Drown / "Grandmother's Tongue" / "The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" / "We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No" / Before Night Falls / The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Brother, I'm Dying / "Night" / "Autobiographical Essay" / "Barney Greengrass" / "Various Lives" / "The Nurse and the Novelist" / Nowhere Man / "Mistress" / Hunger of Memory / Vladimir Nabokov -- Julia de Burgos -- Ariel Dorfman -- John Lukacs -- Joseph Pell -- Denise Levertov -- Frank McCourt -- Edward Said -- Gregory Djanikian -- Thom Gunn -- Charles Simic -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Marie Arana -- Marilyn Chin -- Julia Alvarez -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Luc Sante -- Lucette Lagnado -- Jessica Hagedorn -- Eva Hoffman -- Li-Young Lee -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Chang-rae Lee -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Olga Broumas -- Tahira Naqvi -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Luis H. Francia -- Joseph Brodsky -- Lan Cao -- Junot Díaz -- Josip Novakovich -- Gary Shteyngart -- Greg Delanty -- Reinaldo Arenas -- Dinaw Mengestu -- Edwidge Danticat -- Majid Naficy -- Ilan Stavans -- Norman Manea -- Anita Desai -- Anya Ulinich -- Aleksandar Hemon -- Lara Vapnyar -- Richard Rodriguez from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from
Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing views of immigrants in the United States
9781598532906 (pbk.) 1598532901 (pbk.)
Immigrants' writings, American.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism
Emigration and immigration--Literary collections
Immigrants--Literary collections