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245 0 0 _aBecoming Americans :
_bimmigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today /
_cedited by Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Pete Hamill
246 1 3 _aImmigrants tell their stories from Jamestown to today
250 _aFirst paperback edition
300 _axxiv, 724 pages ;
_c22 cm
490 1 _aLibrary of America
500 _a"A special publication of the Library of America."
500 _aOriginally published in hardcover in 2009 as: Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 707-717) and index
505 0 0 _tForeword /
_rPete Hamill --
_tIntroduction /
_rIlan Stavens --
_tLetter to His Mother and Father /
_rRichard Frethorne --
_t"Upon the First Sight of New England" /
_rThomas Tillam --
_t"The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" /
_rJames Revel --
_gfrom
_tSome Memoirs of the Life of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland /
_rAyuba Suleiman Diallo --
_gfrom
_tJourney to Pennsylvania /
_rGottlieb Mittelberger --
_gfrom
_tLetters from an American Farmer /
_rJ. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- -- from "On being brought from Africa to America" /
_rPhillis Wheatley --
_gfrom
_t"Myself" /
_rJohn James Audubon --
_gfrom
_tMemoirs /
_rLorenzo Da Ponte --
_gfrom
_tJournals /
_rFanny Kemble --
_gfrom
_tAnnie Reilly /
_rJohn McElgun --
_gfrom
_tThe Story of an Emigrant /
_rHans Mattson --
_gfrom
_tReminiscences /
_rCarl Schurz --
_gfrom
_tThe Making of an American /
_rJacob Riis -- "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" /
_rEdith Maude Eaton --
_gfrom
_tThe Education of Abraham Cahan /
_rAbraham Cahan --
_gfrom
_tUp Stream: An American Chronicle /
_rLudwig Lewisohn --
_gfrom
_tThe Promised Land /
_rMary Antin --
_gfrom
_tThe Third Life of Per Smevik /
_rO.E. Rølvaag --
_gfrom
_t"Children of Loneliness" /
_rAnzia Yezierska --
_tPoetry by Chinese Immigrants --
_gfrom
_tThe Mysteries of New York /
_rMenotti Pellegrino --
_gfrom
_tOn the Island of Tears: Ellis Island /
_rLudovico Caminita --
_gfrom
_tCall It Sleep /
_rHenry Roth --
_t"In the Golden Land" /
_rMoyshe-Leyb Halpern --
_gfrom
_tBarrio Boy /
_rErnesto Galarza --
_t"The Tropics in New York" /
_rClaude McKay --
_t"America" /
_rClaude McKay --
_gfrom
_tLaughing in the Jungle /
_rLouis Adamic --
_gfrom
_tCharlie Chaplin's Own Story /
_rCharles Chaplin --
_gfrom
_tChromos /
_rFelipe Alfau --
_gfrom
_tMemoirs /
_rBernardo Vega --
_gfrom
_tEat a Bowl of Tea /
_rLouis Chu --
_gfrom
_tAmerica Is in the Heart /
_rCarlos Bulosan --
_t"A Wedding in Brownsville" /
_rIsaac Bashevis Singer --
_gfrom
_tThe Vienna Paradox /
_rMarjorie Perloff --
_t"Say this city has ten million souls" /
_rW.H. Auden --
_gfrom
_tThe Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse /
_rCarl Djerassi --
_gfrom
_tAtoms in the Family /
_rLaura Fermi --
_gfrom
_tDiaries /
_rChristopher Isherwood --
_gfrom
_tLetter to Walter von Molo /
_rThomas Mann
505 0 0 _gfrom
_tPnin /
_rVladimir Nabokov --
_t"Farewell in Welfare Island" /
_rJulia de Burgos --
_t"Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language" /
_rAriel Dorfman --
_gfrom
_tConfessions of an Original Sinner /
_rJohn Lukacs --
_gfrom
_tTaking Risks /
_rJoseph Pell --
_t"A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England" /
_rDenise Levertov --
_gfrom
_t'Tis /
_rFrank McCourt --
_gfrom
_tOut of Place /
_rEdward Said --
_t"Immigrant Picnic" /
_rGregory Djanikian --
_gfrom
_t"My Life Up to Now" /
_rThom Gunn --
_gfrom
_tA Fly in the Soup /
_rCharles Simic --
_t"Arrival" /
_rJudith Ortiz Cofer --
_gfrom
_tAmerican Chica /
_rMarie Arana --
_t"How I Got That Name" /
_rMarilyn Chin --
_t"Our Papers" /
_rJulia Alvarez --
_gfrom
_tMilosz's ABC's /
_rCzeslaw Milosz --
_gfrom
_t"Cargo" /
_rLuc Sante --
_gfrom
_tThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit /
_rLucette Lagnado --
_gfrom
_tThe Gangster of Love /
_rJessica Hagedorn --
_gfrom
_tLost in Translation /
_rEva Hoffman --
_t"Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" /
_rLi-Young Lee --
_gfrom
_tLucy /
_rJamaica Kincaid --
_gfrom
_tNative Speaker /
_rChang-rae Lee --
_gfrom
_t"Immigrant Mother" /
_rShirley Geok-lin Lim --
_t"Sometimes, as a child" /
_rOlga Broumas --
_t"Dying in a Strange Country" /
_rTahira Naqvi --
_t"The Third and Final Continent" /
_rJhumpa Lahiri --
_t"Tío" /
_rLuis H. Francia --
_gfrom
_t"The Condition We Call Exile" /
_rJoseph Brodsky --
_gfrom
_tMonkey Bridge /
_rLan Cao --
_gfrom
_tDrown /
_rJunot Díaz --
_t"Grandmother's Tongue" /
_rJosip Novakovich --
_t"The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" /
_rGary Shteyngart --
_t"We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No" /
_rGreg Delanty --
_gfrom
_tBefore Night Falls /
_rReinaldo Arenas --
_gfrom
_tThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears /
_rDinaw Mengestu --
_gfrom
_tBrother, I'm Dying /
_rEdwidge Danticat --
_t"Night" /
_rMajid Naficy --
_gfrom
_t"Autobiographical Essay" /
_rIlan Stavans --
_t"Barney Greengrass" /
_rNorman Manea --
_t"Various Lives" /
_rAnita Desai --
_t"The Nurse and the Novelist" /
_rAnya Ulinich --
_gfrom
_tNowhere Man /
_rAleksandar Hemon --
_t"Mistress" /
_rLara Vapnyar --
_gfrom
_tHunger of Memory /
_rRichard Rodriguez
520 _aComprised 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 _aImmigrants' writings, American.
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650 0 _aImmigrants' writings, American
_xHistory and criticism
_98389
650 0 _aEmigration and immigration
_vLiterary collections
_98390
650 0 _aImmigrants
_vLiterary collections
_98395
700 1 _aStavans, Ilan.
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710 2 _aLibrary of America (Firm)
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740 0 2 _aBecoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing
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