Looking forward, looking back images of Eastern European Jewish migration to America in contemporary American children's literature /

Main Author: Pohl, Jana.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Studia imagologica, 19
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10496810
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.