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Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today: A Library of America Special Publication

Immigration is the essential American story, though one often told in terms of its impact on those already here. Becoming Americans tells this epic story from the inside, gathering for the first time over 400 years of writing by first-generation immigrants about the immigrant experienceâ€” from an indentured servantâ€™s wrenching letter home from seventeenth-century Jamestown to Anya Ulinichâ€™s 2008 story of Russian emigrÃ©s in Brooklyn. Over eighty writers create a vivid, passionate, and revealing firsthand account of the challenges and aspirations that define our dynamic, multicultural democracy. In nearly a hundred entriesâ€”poems, stories, novel excerpts, travel pieces, diary entries, memoirs, and lettersâ€”Becoming Americans presents the full range of the experience of coming to America: the reasons for departure, the journey itself, the shock and spectacle of first arrival, the passionate ambivalence toward the old country and the old life, and above all the struggle with the complexities of Americanization. Arranged in chronological order by date of arrival, this unprecedented collection presents a collective history of the United States that is both familiar and surprisingly new, as seen through the fresh eyes and fresh words of newcomers from more than forty different countries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-01-02
EANs 9781598532906

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2014-01-02
EANs	9781598532906

Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today: A Library of America Special Publication

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