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The Immigrants (1977) is a historical novel written by Howard Fast.Set in San Francisco during the early 20th century, it tells the story of Daniel Lavette, a self-described "roughneck" who rises from the ashes of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and becomes one of the most successful and dominating figures in San Francisco.
The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...
Written in the mid-20th century, they explore the large Swedish emigration to the United States that started about a century earlier. Many of the first immigrants settled in the Midwest, including the Minnesota Territory: All of the books have been translated into English, in addition to numerous other languages.
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.
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional [1] town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a ...
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]
The book sets out to discuss themes including free speech and cancel culture through the perspective of a non-Western immigrant. [4] It particularly addresses why the West has a negative view of itself, and why that is self-destructive. [5] One of the themes of the book is the history of slavery and the way it is taught in American schools.
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna, 1949) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg.It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants.In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.