Looking forward, looking back : images of Eastern European Jewish migration to America in contemporary American children's literature / / Jana Pohl.
How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Lookin...
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| Superior document: | Studia imagologica, 19 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studia imagologica ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The corpus
- pt. 2. Theory : image studies
- pt. 3. The country of origin : Russia
- pt. 4. The target country : American
- pt. 5. The American dream and its poetic functions in migration narratives for children
- pt. 6. Adapting an immigrant autobiography : Mary Antin's The promised land (1912) and Rosemary Wells's Streets of gold (1999), illustrated by Dan Andreasen
- pt. 7. Conclusion
- pt. 8. References.