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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781598532906 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1598532901 (pbk.) |
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.b75566023 |
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NMI |
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NMI |
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BTCTA |
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YDXCP |
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BDX |
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OSU |
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UtOrBLW |
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OSUU |
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
PS508.I45 |
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B43 2013 |
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
PS508.I45 |
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B43 2013 |
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| Title |
Becoming Americans : |
| Remainder of title |
immigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Pete Hamill |
| 246 13 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Immigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First paperback edition |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxiv, 724 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Library of America |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"A special publication of the Library of America." |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Originally published in hardcover in 2009 as: Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 707-717) and index |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Foreword / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Pete Hamill -- |
| Title |
Introduction / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ilan Stavens -- |
| Title |
Letter to His Mother and Father / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Frethorne -- |
| Title |
"Upon the First Sight of New England" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Thomas Tillam -- |
| Title |
"The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Revel -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Some Memoirs of the Life of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Journey to Pennsylvania / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gottlieb Mittelberger -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Letters from an American Farmer / |
| Statement of responsibility |
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- -- from "On being brought from Africa to America" / |
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Phillis Wheatley -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"Myself" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John James Audubon -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Memoirs / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lorenzo Da Ponte -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Journals / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Fanny Kemble -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Annie Reilly / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John McElgun -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Story of an Emigrant / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Hans Mattson -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Reminiscences / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Carl Schurz -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Making of an American / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jacob Riis -- "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" / |
| -- |
Edith Maude Eaton -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Education of Abraham Cahan / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Abraham Cahan -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Up Stream: An American Chronicle / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ludwig Lewisohn -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Promised Land / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Mary Antin -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Third Life of Per Smevik / |
| Statement of responsibility |
O.E. Rølvaag -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"Children of Loneliness" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Anzia Yezierska -- |
| Title |
Poetry by Chinese Immigrants -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Mysteries of New York / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Menotti Pellegrino -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
On the Island of Tears: Ellis Island / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ludovico Caminita -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Call It Sleep / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Henry Roth -- |
| Title |
"In the Golden Land" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Barrio Boy / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ernesto Galarza -- |
| Title |
"The Tropics in New York" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Claude McKay -- |
| Title |
"America" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Claude McKay -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Laughing in the Jungle / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Louis Adamic -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Charlie Chaplin's Own Story / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Charles Chaplin -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Chromos / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Felipe Alfau -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Memoirs / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Bernardo Vega -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Eat a Bowl of Tea / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Louis Chu -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
America Is in the Heart / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Carlos Bulosan -- |
| Title |
"A Wedding in Brownsville" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Isaac Bashevis Singer -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Vienna Paradox / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Marjorie Perloff -- |
| Title |
"Say this city has ten million souls" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
W.H. Auden -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Carl Djerassi -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Atoms in the Family / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Laura Fermi -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Diaries / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Christopher Isherwood -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Letter to Walter von Molo / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Thomas Mann |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Pnin / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Vladimir Nabokov -- |
| Title |
"Farewell in Welfare Island" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Julia de Burgos -- |
| Title |
"Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ariel Dorfman -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Confessions of an Original Sinner / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Lukacs -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Taking Risks / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joseph Pell -- |
| Title |
"A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Denise Levertov -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
'Tis / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Frank McCourt -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Out of Place / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Edward Said -- |
| Title |
"Immigrant Picnic" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gregory Djanikian -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"My Life Up to Now" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Thom Gunn -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
A Fly in the Soup / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Charles Simic -- |
| Title |
"Arrival" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Judith Ortiz Cofer -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
American Chica / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Marie Arana -- |
| Title |
"How I Got That Name" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Marilyn Chin -- |
| Title |
"Our Papers" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Julia Alvarez -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Milosz's ABC's / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Czeslaw Milosz -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"Cargo" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Luc Sante -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lucette Lagnado -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Gangster of Love / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jessica Hagedorn -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Lost in Translation / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Eva Hoffman -- |
| Title |
"Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Li-Young Lee -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Lucy / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jamaica Kincaid -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Native Speaker / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Chang-rae Lee -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"Immigrant Mother" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- |
| Title |
"Sometimes, as a child" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Olga Broumas -- |
| Title |
"Dying in a Strange Country" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Tahira Naqvi -- |
| Title |
"The Third and Final Continent" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jhumpa Lahiri -- |
| Title |
"Tío" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Luis H. Francia -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"The Condition We Call Exile" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joseph Brodsky -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Monkey Bridge / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lan Cao -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Drown / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Junot Díaz -- |
| Title |
"Grandmother's Tongue" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Josip Novakovich -- |
| Title |
"The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gary Shteyngart -- |
| Title |
"We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Greg Delanty -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Before Night Falls / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Reinaldo Arenas -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Dinaw Mengestu -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Brother, I'm Dying / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Edwidge Danticat -- |
| Title |
"Night" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Majid Naficy -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
"Autobiographical Essay" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ilan Stavans -- |
| Title |
"Barney Greengrass" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Norman Manea -- |
| Title |
"Various Lives" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Anita Desai -- |
| Title |
"The Nurse and the Novelist" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Anya Ulinich -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Nowhere Man / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Aleksandar Hemon -- |
| Title |
"Mistress" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lara Vapnyar -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
from |
| Title |
Hunger of Memory / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Rodriguez |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Immigrants' writings, American. |
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8388 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Immigrants' writings, American |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism |
| 9 (RLIN) |
8389 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Emigration and immigration |
| Form subdivision |
Literary collections |
| 9 (RLIN) |
8390 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Immigrants |
| Form subdivision |
Literary collections |
| 9 (RLIN) |
8395 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stavans, Ilan. |
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38677 |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Library of America (Firm) |
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38678 |
| 740 02 - ADDED ENTRY--UNCONTROLLED RELATED/ANALYTICAL TITLE |
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| Uncontrolled related/analytical title |
Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Library of America. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
