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The narrative styles are diverse and can include memoirs, third-person, first-person, and biographies. The past twenty-five years alone have witnessed a major scholarly emphasis on multiculturalism in American studies, and a flood of new immigrant novels, reflecting the shifting demographics of United States immigration patterns. [1]
Included in this category are novels set in the geographical area which later became the United States, from earliest years of exploration to the American Revolutionary War. Novels which begin before the war but are mainly in the Revolutionary War period should be listed in the Category: American Revolutionary War novels.
Migrant literature focuses on the social contexts in the migrants' country of origin which prompt them to leave, on the experience of migration itself, on the mixed reception which they may receive in the country of arrival, on experiences of racism and hostility, and on the sense of rootlessness and the search for identity which can result from displacement and cultural diversity.
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 is a nonfiction historical book written by A. Roger Ekirch. It was originally published in 1987 and then reissued in 1990, and 1992 by Clarendon Press .
A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.. The name of the book is a reference to the fact that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly made up of immigrants and their recent descendants, who settled the country following the European colonization of the Americas and the ...
The franchise began with Pierre Boulle's 1963 book La Plenète des singes. WWE (39A: "Smackdown! org.) WWE SmackDown (titled SmackDown! from 1999-2008) is a TV program produced by World Wrestling ...
The American television series The New Land (1974) starred Scott Thomas, Bonnie Bedelia, and Kurt Russell, and was broadcast by ABC. The series was loosely based on the 1971 and 1972 film adaptations. 13 episodes were produced, but only 6 aired. The Swedish musical Kristina från Duvemåla (1995) was based on the novels.
Prior to the working on the book, Bush met all of the immigrants whose stories are covered in the book. [1] In creating the book, Bush stated "My hope is that Out of Many, One will help focus our collective attention on the positive effects that immigrants have on our country." [2] Out of Many, One quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [2]