Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher:
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122573
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a hero from the New York's East Side.

Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625581343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably commented on by the press both in America and in England. W. D. Howells compared Cahan's work to that of Stephen Crane, and prophesied for him a successful literary future.

Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto" by Abraham Cahan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Lothrop Stoddard
Publisher:
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Category : Caucasian race
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 177659083X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Abraham Cahan immigrated to the United States from Lithuania at the age of 21, and he enthusiastically adopted New York City as his hometown. In this charming collection of short stories, alternately humorous and gritty, the kaleidoscope of experiences of recent immigrants to the big city are chronicled in engrossing detail.

Author: Cathy Schlund-Vials
Publisher: American Literatures Initiativ
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging. Modeling Citizenship examines fiction, memoir, and drama to reflect on how the logic of naturalization has operated at discrete moments in the twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on two exemplary literary works. For example, Schlund-Vials shows how Mary Antin's Jewish-themed play The Promised Land is reworked into a more contemporary Chinese American context in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. In her compelling analysis, Schlund-Vials amplifies the structural, cultural, and historical significance of these works and the themes they address.

Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to "paint life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation," Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.

Author: Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1074

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