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  1. In Search of a Dream America
    Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants
    Contributor: Stolarik, Mark (Publisher); Klemencic, Matjaz (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stolarik, Mark (Publisher); Klemencic, Matjaz (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034324243
    Other identifier:
    9783034324243
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; KD 6750
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Platz <Motiv>; Raum <Motiv>; Osteuropäischer Einwanderer; Amerikabild; Migrantenliteratur
    Other subjects: Aksënov, Vasilij Pavlovič (1932-2009); Limonov, Ėduard (1943-2020); Antin, Mary (1881-1949); Hoffman, Eva (1945-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (254 Seiten), 14 ill
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    Online resource; title from title screen (viewed June 27, 2019)

    This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book (Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi) come to North America from different places in Eastern Europe and publish their books at different times of the 20th century, but for all of them an attachment to the new place begins before emigration. The initial stages of this process are imaginative - learning and dreaming about America, visualizing it as an ideal place - and the immigrants' encounter with their new country is mediated by this idealized image of America. Although some immigrant autobiographers profess an immediate bonding to American places, the texts examined in this book demonstrate that the process of claiming a new place as one's own is often rife with ambiguities and setbacks. Only by negotiating the gap between the dream and the encountered America can an immigrant begin to feel at home in the new place. At the same time, the bond to the home country can never be severed, and that rejected place becomes a reference point for comparisons or even a model for organizing the new environment. Briefly stated, immigrants maintain attachments to multiple places - physical, imagined, and remembered
  2. In Search of a Dream America
    Author: Stolarik, Mark
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Bern ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the... more

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    This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book (Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi) come to North America from different places in Eastern Europe and publish their books at different times of the 20th century, but for all of them an attachment to the new place begins before emigration. The initial stages of this process are imaginative – learning and dreaming about America, visualizing it as an ideal place – and the immigrants’ encounter with their new country is mediated by this idealized image of America. Although some immigrant autobiographers profess an immediate bonding to American places, the texts examined in this book demonstrate that the process of claiming a new place as one’s own is often rife with ambiguities and setbacks. Only by negotiating the gap between the dream and the encountered America can an immigrant begin to feel at home in the new place. At the same time, the bond to the home country can never be severed, and that rejected place becomes a reference point for comparisons or even a model for organizing the new environment. Briefly stated, immigrants maintain attachments to multiple places – physical, imagined, and remembered.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Klemencic, Matjaz; Rodimtseva, Irina V.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034324243
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    DDC Categories: 970; 810
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Immigration from Europe to North America ; 2
    Subjects: Migrantenliteratur; Osteuropäischer Einwanderer; Amerikabild; Raum <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  3. In search of a dream America
    place in the life writing of Eastern European immigrants
    Author: Rodimtseva, Irina V.
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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  4. In Search of a Dream America
    Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants
    Author: Rodimtseva, Irina V.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

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