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The Old and the New Converge:
The Immigrant Experience in Fiction
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Julia Alvarez: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent , 2001
Dominican-American
Monica Ali: Brick Lane , 2004
Bangladeshis in London
Lan Cao: Monkey Bridge , 1997
Vietnamese-American
Willa Cather: My Antonia , 1918
Eastern Europeans in late 19C/early 20C Nebraska
Lan Samantha Chang: Hunger and Other Stories , 1998
Chinese-American
Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo , 2003
Mexican-American
Camille Cusumano: The Last Cannoli , 2000
Italian-American
Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory , 1994
Haitian-American
Nicholas Delbanco: What Remains , 2000
Post WWII Jewish-American
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Vine of Desire , 2002
Indian-American
Andre Dubus III: House of Sand and Fog , 1999
Iranian-American
Louise Erdrich: The Master Butchers Singing Club , 2003
German-American
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex , 2002
Greek-American
Ursula Hegi: The Vision of Emma Blau , 2000
Early 20C German-American
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner , 2003
Afghan-American
Gish Jen: Typical American, 1992
Chinese-American
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake , 2003
Bengali-American
Chang-rae Lee: Native Speaker , 1995
Korean-American
Andrea Levy: Small Island , 2004
Jamaican-British in post WWII London
Marian Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian , 2005
Ukrainian-British
Ana Menendez: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd , 2001
Cuban-American
Vilhelm Moberg: The Emigrants , 1950
Swedish-American
Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine , 1999
Indian-American
Annie Proulx: Accordion Crimes , 1996
Various nationalities in the US from 1890 to the present
Jonathan Raban: Waxwings , 2003
English-American
Ole Rolvaag: Giants in the Earth , 1927
Scandinavians in 19C Great Plains
Gary Shteyngart: The Russian Debutante's Handbook , 2002
Russian-American
Bapsi Sidwa: An American Brat , 1995
Pakistani-American
Zadie Smith: White Teeth, 2000
Jamaican-British and Bangladeshi-British
Mary Helen Stefaniak: The Turk and My Mother , 2004
Early 20C Croatian-Americans in Milwaukee
Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club , 1989
Chinese-American
Jane Urquhart: Away , 1993
Irish-Canadian
Helene Androski for Wisconsin Library Association Readers Section
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Conference 2005
handroski@library.wisc.edu
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